How do those handle SSL and user authentication? I skimmed your links but didn't see anything.
Python's urllib2 isn't that bad for the simple stuff shown in your links, but it's a mess when you have to try to log in somewhere. Seeing in the example that logging in is as straightforward as
Yeah the authentication parts of urllib2 remind me of the horrible 20-letter classes glued together in Java, just the thing I wanted to escape from by using Python. Seeing that I'm trying to make this script interface with a website that uses both cookies and http auth this library seems like a godsend.
