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Accessing Protected Resources with urllib and Realm Authentication

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 8, 2024

Access protected web resources in Python using urllib and realm-based authentication with HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm and HTTPBasicAuthHandler.

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