Dave Kuhlman wrote:

I'm trying to write an XML-RPC client that will send requests to an XML-RPC server which requires a user ID and password. In xmlrpclib, the URL format for this is:

http://userid:password@somehost:aport/...

But, twisted.web.xmlrpc.Proxy does not seem to support this.

So, is there a way to write a Twisted XML-RPC client that passes in user name and password? And, if so, how do I do that?

I've searched the documentation and done some other searches, but can't find this.

Thanks for any help.

Dave

We wrote this at work a while back for communicating with zope xmlrpc, hope it helps: """ A slight extension to twisted.web.xmlrpc for basic auth support. Eventually this should be cleaned up and integrated with Twisted as general auth support for twisted.web.xmlrpc. $Id: xmlrpc.py 1660 2005-07-15 07:14:57Z tjs $ """ # vi:ts=4 tw=80 import base64, urlparse, xmlrpclib from twisted.internet import reactor from twisted.web import xmlrpc class QueryProtocol(xmlrpc.QueryProtocol): def connectionMade(self): self.sendCommand('POST', self.factory.url) self.sendHeader('User-Agent', 'Twisted/XMLRPClib') self.sendHeader('Host', self.factory.host) if self.factory.authString is not None: cred = base64.encodestring(self.factory.authString) self.sendHeader('Authorization', 'Basic ' + cred[:-1]) self.sendHeader('Content-type', 'text/xml') self.sendHeader('Content-length', str(len(self.factory.payload))) self.endHeaders() self.transport.write(self.factory.payload) class QueryFactory(xmlrpc.QueryFactory): protocol = QueryProtocol def __init__(self, url, host, method, authString=None, *args): self.authString = authString xmlrpc.QueryFactory.__init__(self, url, host, method, *args) # rape'n'paste from twisted.web.xmlrpc.Proxy. # "#!" means modified from original. class Proxy: """A Proxy for making remote XML-RPC calls. Pass the URL of the remote XML-RPC server to the constructor. Use proxy.callRemote('foobar', *args) to call remote method 'foobar' with *args. """ def __init__(self, url): parts = urlparse.urlparse(url) self.url = urlparse.urlunparse(('', '')+parts[2:]) self.auth = None #! if self.url == "": self.url = "/" if ':' in parts[1]: #! vvv if '@' in parts[1]: self.auth, address = parts[1].split('@') else: address = parts[1] self.authHost = None self.host, self.port = address.split(':') if self.auth is not None: self.authHost = '@'.join([self.auth, self.host]) #! ^^^ self.port = int(self.port) else: self.host, self.port = parts[1], None self.secure = parts[0] == 'https' def callRemote(self, method, *args): factory = QueryFactory(self.url, self.host, method, self.auth, *args) #! if self.secure: from twisted.internet import ssl reactor.connectSSL(self.host, self.port or 443, factory, ssl.ClientContextFactory()) else: reactor.connectTCP(self.host, self.port or 80, factory) return factory.deferred