Python 3 Basic Authentication

[Gerald Bäck]

Hi,

I try to do my first steps with the Twitter API, but I always get a 401 with this python 3 code. I douplechecked the credentials twice, they are surely correct. What am I doing wrong. Thankks in advance,

Gerald

auth_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
auth_handler.add_password(realm="Twitter API",
uri="http://example.com",
user="123",
passwd="123")
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(auth_handler)

urllib.request.install_opener(opener)
f = urllib.request.urlopen('http://twitter.com/friendships/destroy/scoop_at.json')
print(f.read())

[Jason Emerick]

I would recommend just added the authorization header directly to the request versus using the basic auth handler.  I have included some sample code below of how I have been doing it.

username = 'twitter'
password = 'twitter'
basic = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password))[:-1]

request = urllib2.Request('http://stream.twitter.com/spritzer.json')

request.add_header('Authorization', 'Basic %s' % basic)

spritzer = urllib2.urlopen(request)

Jason Emerick

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[Paul Kinlan]

I know it is not exactly the same service, but when I authenticate against the Twitter Stream API using basic auth and python I set the Realm = None when I call add_password on the basic auth handler.

Paul

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