Browsing A Ntlm Protected Website Using Python With Python Ntlm

I have been tasked with creating a script that logs on to a corporate portal goes to a particular page, downloads the page, compares it to an earlier version and then emails a cert

Solution 1:

If the site is using NTLM authentication, the headers attribute of the resulting HTTPError should say so:

>>> try:
...   handle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
... except IOError, e:
...   print e.headers
... 
<other headers>
WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
WWW-Authenticate: NTLM