urllib2 not accepting credentials in URL

Asked Jul 01 '16 at 21:53

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The form-based login for a webpage can often by bypassed with the following URL structure:

https://myusername:mypassword@myserver.com

(note: I know there are security concerns here; that is beyond the scope of this question).

urllib2 doesn't like this:

urllib2.urlopen('http://myusername:mypassword@myserver.com')
InvalidURL: nonnumeric port: 'mypassword@myserver.com'

I guess it is seeing the second as the start of the URL. I know that the requests library has no such problems. But for legacy reasons, I am stuck with using urllib2. Is it possible to get around this with urllib2?

asked Jul 01 '16 at 21:53

Pyderman

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[Relevant](http://bugs.python.org/issue944396) – Suever Jul 01 '16 at 21:57
Related: http://stackoverflow.com/q/2407126/172176 – Aya Jul 01 '16 at 22:00
[This answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/4188709/1555990) should help. – That1Guy Jul 01 '16 at 22:01
Possible duplicate of [Python urllib2, basic HTTP authentication, and tr.im](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/635113/python-urllib2-basic-http-authentication-and-tr-im) – Amanda Jul 03 '18 at 20:49

urllib2 not accepting credentials in URL

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