urllib, python 1.52, basic authentication

[Steve Purcell]

Ari Davidow wrote:
> I am trying to request a page that is being protected by basic authentication.
> 
> import httplib, urllib,binascii
> cookie = binascii.b2a_base64("user:password")
> h = httplib.HTTP("www.site.com")
> h.putrequest("GET", "/admin/flushgo.html?ok=ok" "HTTP/1.0\r\n")


I think you can (and should) omit that HTTP/1.0 specifier and the line ending.

       h.putrequest("GET", "/admin/flushgo.html?ok=ok")


> h.putheader("Proxy-authorization", "Basic %s" % cookie)


And here, according to the source of urllib2.py, this should be changed to:

       h.putheader("Authorization", "Basic %s" % cookie)

Good luck,

-Steve


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