import xbmc, urllib2, base64 xbmc.Player().pause() req = urllib2.Request("http://192.168.0.20:40000/empty.htm?key=1") #userpass = base64.encodestring('user:password') #req.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic '+userpass) req.add_header('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0') response = urllib2.urlopen(req) link=response.read() response.close()