Re: HTTP GET request with basic authorization?

From: Jonas Galvez (jonasgalvez_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:12:39 -0200
To: python-list@python.org

Christopher J. wrote:
> I tried this, but it didn't work:
> conn.request("GET", "/somepage.html", None,
> {"AUTHORIZATION": "Basic username:password"})

Hmm, try this:

import re, base64
userpass = base64.encodestring('user:pass').replace('\n', '')
authd = {'Authorization':'Basic %s' % userpass}
conn.request('GET', '/uri', None, authd)

Or this:

import re, base64, urllib2
 
userpass = ('user', 'pass')
url = 'http://somewhere'

request = urllib2.Request(url)
authstring = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % userpass)
authstring = authstring.replace('\n', '')
request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % authstring)
 
content = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()