The Launchpad authorization cookie should be exposed via settings so it can be included in local_settings.py.
Something like:
=== modified file 'summit/schedule/models/summitmodel.py'
--- summit/schedule/models/summitmodel.py 2012-10-27 14:59:34 +0000
+++ summit/schedule/models/summitmodel.py 2013-01-18 19:13:51 +0000
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
while trycounter <= retrytotal:
req = urllib2.Request(url)
req.add_header("Cache-Control", "no-cache")
- req.add_header("Cookie", "please-don't-cache-me")
+ req.add_header("Cookie", "lp=%s" & getattr(settings, "LP_AUTH_COOKIE", "please-dont'-cache-me"))
try:
export = urllib2.urlopen(req)
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
