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     1.4 +Stateful programmatic web browsing, after Andy Lester's Perl module WWW::Mechanize.
     1.5 +
     1.6 +Mechanize.Browser implements the urllib2.OpenerDirector interface.
     1.7 +Browser objects have state, including navigation history, HTML form state, cookies,
     1.8 +etc.
     1.9 +The set of features and URL schemes handled by Browser objects is configurable.
    1.10 +The library also provides an API that is mostly compatible with urllib2:
    1.11 +your urllib2 program will likely still work if you replace "urllib2" with "mechanize"
    1.12 +everywhere.
    1.13 +
    1.14 +Features include: ftp:, http: and file: URL schemes, browser history, hyperlink and
    1.15 +HTML form support, HTTP cookies, HTTP-EQUIV and Refresh, Referer [sic] header,
    1.16 +robots.txt, redirections, proxies, and Basic and Digest HTTP authentication.
    1.17 +
    1.18 +Much of the code originally derived from Perl code by Gisle Aas (libwww-perl),
    1.19 +Johnny Lee (MSIE Cookie support) and last but not least Andy Lester (WWW::Mechanize).
    1.20 +Urllib2 was written by Jeremy Hylton.