HTTP - basic authentication example.
Jaime Wyant
programmer.py at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 08:49:36 EDT 2004
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:27:22 +0100, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool, that is helpful.
> The difficulties I would have with that approach are two fold - first
> I use ClientCookie and have to install that as the handler. I may be
> able to use an auth handler *as well* (I *think* yo ucan chain them
> ?).
>
Yes, you can chain them together, I believe, as long as they "handle"
different things. My version is a quick hack that specifically gets
me around the firewall here at work. I think the *correct* way to do
this Basic Authentication is (from urllib2.py):
# set up authentication info
authinfo = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
authinfo.add_password('realm', 'host', 'username', 'password')
proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http" : "http://ahad-haam:3128"})
# build a new opener that adds authentication and caching FTP handlers
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support, authinfo, urllib2.CacheFTPHandler)
# install it
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
I'm not sure what a ClientCookie is (didn't see it in my docs.)
Assuming that it is just a wrapper around the cookie, then you
probably only need the HTTP headers. You can grab the HTTP headers
from the object returned by urllib2.urlopen().
filelike_obj = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
headers = filelike_obj.info()
server_type = headers.getheader( "SERVER")
Maybe you can feed the Cookie header to the ClientCookie ctor?
HTH,
jw
> The second is that I think I need to take realm into account... I may
> be handling multiple password/username combinations.
>
> Anyway - I still find what you've sent useful - thanks.
>
> Fuzzy
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:21:21 -0500, Jaime Wyant <programmer.py at gmail.com> wrote:
> > FWIW, this is how I handle Basic Authentication:
> >
> > import urllib2
> > import sys
> >
> > class AuthenticateAllURIs:
> > """This class authenticates all Basic Authentication using uname
> > / pword."""
> > def __init__(self,uname,pword):
> > self.uname = uname
> > self.pword = pword
> >
> > def find_user_password(self, realm, host):
> > # Note, that this class doesn't take `realm' into consideration.
> > return self.uname, self.pword
> >
> > def add_password( self, realm, uri, user, password ):
> > pass
> >
> > auth = urllib2.ProxyBasicAuthHandler(AuthenticateAllURIs('umjaw', 'fuse3'))
> > opener = urllib2.build_opener( auth )
> > urllib2.install_opener( opener )
> > wp = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.slashdot.org")
> > print wp.read()
> >
> > HTH,
> > jw
> >
> > On 15 Sep 2004 08:37:12 -0700, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [ snip! ]
> >
>
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