urllib2 (version 2.5) . ... usr/local/Python-2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py . Module Docs . ... object; the returned object has some extra methods described below. ... deals with digest authentication. urlopen (url, data=None) -- basic usage is the same as original . ... BaseHandler -- . ... Methods defined here: . init__ (self, password_mgr =None ) . http_error_auth_reqed (self, authreq, host, req, headers) . ... do_open (self, http_class, req) . ... Methods inherited from BaseHandler : . ...