Re: Django HTTP Basic Auth

[Aaron C. de Bruyn]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:55 PM, django <mait...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to create a Django app, one of the thing I do in that is write a connection.py which connects to  a remote server. In that connection string I need to send one of the parameter as "http_auth = http_auth.HTTPBasicAuth(user, password)". I am not sure how to do that in Django. I searched the web a lot and nothing I got which is very relevant to what I am doing. Can anyone please help me. 

If I understand you correctly, you want to connect to a service that uses HTTP Basic Auth in connection.py and do something with the data.

You might look into python's urllib2 library.

I found this snippet:

import urllib2, base64



request = urllib2.Request("http://api.foursquare.com/v1/user")


base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password)).replace('\n', '')


request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)   


result = urllib2.urlopen(request)

Here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/635113/python-urllib2-basic-http-authentication-and-tr-im

-A

[Matt Schinckel]

You may want to look into requests, which wraps http request-response handling in a nicer wrapper.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests/

Matt.