Calling a function published to PiCloud ?

[TornadoRocks]

Hi all, 

Pardon me if i'm missing anything.

I was trying out the post found at : http://blog.picloud.com/2011/09/14/introducing-function-publishing-via-rest/

and I have successfully published the function ( the example on creating a thumbnail ) to PiCloud.

I am having some issues with calling the function via Python.

The blog post mentioned that it uses Basic Auth to authenticate,

but i'm not quite sure how do i perform a Basic Auth and than upload an image to the function

published at PiCloud.

I was wondering if there's any sample code in Python that demonstrates how to perform the above action ?

I have checked out a few libraries:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests -> I received weird SSL certificate errors using this one

http://atlee.ca/software/poster/ -> i've read the tutorial, but it does not mention how do i perform a Basic Auth first before uploading an image.

Any advice ( code example as a python script or using the above mentioned libraries

 as to how to perform a Basic Auth and than uploading an image to the 

function ( thumbnail example at http://blog.picloud.com/2011/09/14/introducing-function-publishing-via-rest/ )

is welcomed!

Best.

[Aaron Staley]

Here's a quick example from the cloud library (network.py):

headers = {} # dictionary of http headers

base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (api_key, secretkey))[:-1]  # encode api key and secretkey into base64

headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic %s' % base64string  # HTTP Authorization header provides authenication info

request = urllib2.Request('rest_url', headers = headers)  # build http request with our headers

response = urllib2_file.urlopen(request)  # issue request

More on HTTP authentication:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication

Hope this helps,

Aaron Staley

PiCloud, Inc.