urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler

    password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
    password_mgr.add_password(None, system, username, password)
 
    handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler)
 
    # at first make sure to start over

def test_urllib2_basic_auth():
    auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
    auth_handler.add_password(
        'Trac - trac', 'www.cherrypy.org', 'guest', 'cpguest')
    opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler)
    result = opener.open(url)
    return result.info()['Set-Cookie']

		if row == 0:
			print 'I didnt find the following show: ', link.string, ' - I will download it now'
 
			from urllib2 import (HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm, HTTPBasicAuthHandler, build_opener, install_opener, HTTPError, Request, urlopen, URLError )
			password_mgr = HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
			password_mgr.add_password(None, "http://members.easynews.com/global4/search.html", easyNewsUsername,easyNewsPassword)
			handler = HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)

				# I authenticate again because it was losing authentication when trying to download from the different link(?)
				password_mgr = HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
				password_mgr.add_password(None, "http://boost4-downloads.members.easynews.com/news/", easyNewsUsername,easyNewsPassword)
				handler = HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
				opener = build_opener(handler)
				install_opener(opener)
				f = urlopen(downloadLink)

 
    passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
    passman.add_password(None, url, user , password)
    auth_basic = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
    auth_digest = urllib2.HTTPDigestAuthHandler(passman)
    auth_NTLM = HTTPNtlmAuthHandler(passman)
 

'''
 
from urllib import urlencode
from urllib2 import HTTPBasicAuthHandler, \
                    HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm, \
                    HTTPRedirectHandler, \
                    HTTPDefaultErrorHandler, \

 
        opener = build_opener(SmartRedirectHandler(),
                                      DefaultErrorHandler(),
                                      HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passwordManager))
 
        return opener.open(request)
 

 
        opener = build_opener(SmartRedirectHandler(),
                                      DefaultErrorHandler(),
                                      HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passwordManager))
 
        #try:
        #    opener.open(request)

 
        opener = build_opener(SmartRedirectHandler(),
                                      DefaultErrorHandler(),
                                      HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passwordManager))
 
        return opener.open(request)
 

 
        opener = build_opener(SmartRedirectHandler(),
                                      DefaultErrorHandler(),
                                      HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passwordManager))
 
        try:
            return opener.open(request)

    passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
    for site in config.authenticate.keys():
        passman.add_password(None, site, config.authenticate[site][0], config.authenticate[site][1])
    authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
    authenticateURLopener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj),authhandler)
    urllib2.install_opener(authenticateURLopener)
 

    def set_authentication(self, uri, login, password):    
        password_manager = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
        password_manager.add_password(realm=None, uri=uri, user=login, passwd=password)
        opener = urllib2.build_opener(
            urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_manager)
            , urllib2.HTTPDigestAuthHandler(password_manager)
            )

    def _install_creds(self, base_url, credentials):
        if credentials[0] and credentials[1]:
            user, passwd = credentials
            pwm = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
            pwm.add_password(None, base_url, user, passwd)
            handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(pwm)
            handler.set_parent(urllib2.HTTPHandler())

        # Add the username, the password and the associated URL
        passman.add_password(None, url, user, password)
        # Create our authentication handler
        authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
        # Use the authentication hadler for opening the URL
        opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)
        # Install our opener and authenticate

        # Add the username, the password and the associated URL
        passman.add_password(None, url, user, password)
        # Create our authentication handler
        authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
        # Use the authentication hadler for opening the URL
        opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)
        # Install our opener and authenticate

    try:
        passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
        passman.add_password(None, url, user, password)
        authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
        opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)
        urllib2.install_opener(opener)
        request = urllib2.urlopen(url)

            if username and password:
                passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
                passman.add_password(None, uri, username, password)
                authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
                opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)
                urllib2.install_opener(opener)
            s = urllib2.urlopen(uri)