Michel Bouwmans wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey everybody, > > I'm having a little problem with urllib2 and Basic HTTP authentication. > > I have the following code: > > auth = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() > auth.add_password(None, 'https://webmail.osg-erasmus.nl/oneNet/NetStorage/', > user, password) > authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(auth) > > opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth) > opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 Something/1.0')] > > try: > return > self.opener.open('https://webmail.osg-erasmus.nl/oneNet/NetStorage/') > except urllib2.HTTPError, e: > print e.code > print e.headers > > This however does not allow me to authenticate. I keep getting back a 401: > > 401 > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:11:32 GMT > Server: Apache/2.0.54 (NETWARE) mod_perl/1.99_12 Perl/v5.8.4 PHP/5.0.5 > mod_nsn/1.0_0 mod_jk/1.2.14 > Set-Cookie: novellsession1=8KuAO0iLyAEAAAAAAAAAAA==; path=/ > WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="ERASMUS-TREE" > Vary: accept-language,accept-charset > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Connection: close > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Language: en > > Using this nice class (adapted to urllib2) as a basehandler I see that no > Authentication-header is being send out: > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440574 > > What am I doing wrong here? I spend almost my entire free time today on this > and couldn't find any problem with my code, anyone else has a thought? > Thanks in advance.
Can you get something like the following to work: import urllib2 pword_manager = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() pword_manager.add_password(None, 'http://localhost/ pwordProtectedStuff/', 'jane', 'janes_password') authentication_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(pword_manager) my_custom_urlopen_function = urllib2.build_opener(authentication_handler) urllib2.install_opener(my_custom_urlopen_function) f = urllib2.urlopen('http://localhost/pwordProtectedStuff/test.htm') print f.read() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
