[twill] add_auth

[Titus Brown]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:04:55PM +0100, John J Lee wrote:
-> [...]
-> > (um, what the above paragraph means is: always use mechanize.Blah, not
-> > urllib2.Blah :-)
-> [...]
-> 
-> Just noticed this, also from mechanize page, but says it more clearly:
-> 
-> 
-> mechanize exports the complete interface of urllib2:
-> 
-> import mechanize
-> response = mechanize.urlopen("http://www.example.com/")
-> print response.read()
-> 
-> so anything you would normally import from urllib2 can (and should, by 
-> preference, to insulate you from future changes) be imported from 
-> mechanize instead. In many cases if you import an object from mechanize it 
-> will be the very same object you would get if you imported from urllib2. 
-> In many other cases, though, the implementation comes from mechanize, 
-> either because bug fixes have been applied or the functionality of urllib2 
-> has been extended in some way.

OK, I've swapped out all references to urllib2.

Stava, if you download 

	http://darcs.idyll.org/~t/projects/twill-latest.tar.gz

the auth stuff now uses mechanize's auth handling.  It's still two
months behind John's latest mechanize (because I still have some custom
stuff that hasn't been integrated into mechanize) but it might work.

cheers,
--titus