HTTP Authentication

[glmrenard]

Hello,

I have to get a web page with python but I can't ...
I don't know how to send login/password to authenticate.
Could someone give me an exemple please ?

 

[ericbrunson]

Read the python maual pages for urllib2.

The basic construct is

        handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
        handler.add_password(realm, domain, webuser, webpass)

 

[glmrenard]

Hello,

Thanks for answering.
I have tried lot of thing and nothin work so here my final code (it works but Iuse httplib)
conn=httplib.HTTPConnection(self.host)
conn.request("GET" , self.url , "", {"Authorization":"Basic "+base64.encodestring(self.login+":"+self.password)} )
r=conn.getresponse()
self.data=r.read()

Do you have a complete exemple with urllib2 ?

 

[ericbrunson]

From the manual for HTTPLib:

11.6 httplib -- HTTP protocol client

This module defines classes which implement the client side of the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It is normally not used directly -- the module urllib uses it to handle URLs that use HTTP and HTTPS.

Here's an example:

import urllib2

handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
handler.add_password('AuthName from .htaccess',
    '[URL unfurl="true"]www.your.com',[/URL] 'yourusername', 'yourpass')

opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

try:
    f = urllib2.urlopen( '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.your.com/path'[/URL] )
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
    if e.code == 401:
        print 'not authorized'
    elif e.code == 404:
        print 'not found'
    elif e.code == 503:
        print 'service unavailable'
    else:
        print 'unknown error: '
else:
    print 'success'
    for line in f:
        print line,