Hello, I'm trying to make a desktop client written in Python 2.5 (on Windows) communicate with a web2py 1.76.5 based app using services. It works fine with services that don't require authentication, but I was wondering if I could make it authenticate the user with Basic authentication.
I've read in the Python docs that xmlrpclib supports Basic authentication: " Both the HTTP and HTTPS transports support the URL syntax extension for HTTP Basic Authentication: http://user:p...@host:port/path. The user:pass portion will be base64-encoded as an HTTP `Authorization' header, and sent to the remote server as part of the connection process when invoking an XML-RPC method. " In my modified Welcome web2py app I've added the setting auth.settings.allow_basic_authentication = True in welcome/models/db.py I've decorated the private_call action like so: @auth.requires_login() def private_call(): return private_service() And I've added a test action getstring: @private_service.xmlrpc def getstring(): if auth.is_logged_in(): return "logged in!" else: return "not logged in!" In my desktop app I'm calling the service like this: self.server = xmlrpclib.Server("http://myem...@gmail.com:mypassw...@127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/default/private_call/xmlrpc";) print self.server.getstring() and I'm getting this traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Alexei\Documents\wxPython\Boa\xml_rpc_test\Frame1.py", line 137 , in OnButton4Button print self.server3.getstring() File "C:\Python25\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1147, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "C:\Python25\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1437, in __request verbose=self.__verbose File "C:\Users\Alexei\Documents\wxPython\Boa\xml_rpc_test\Frame1.py", line 185 , in request headers xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for myem...@gmail.com:mypassword@ 127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/default/private_call/xmlrpc: 303 SEE OTHER> I'm obviously doing something wrong. Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks. -- Alexei Vinidiktov -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
