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I'm trying to use basic HTTP authentication in python. I am using the Requests library:
auth = requests.post('http://' + hostname, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(user, password))
request = requests.get('http://' + hostname + '/rest/applications')
Response form auth variable:
<<class 'requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar'>[<Cookie JSESSIONID=cb10906c6219c07f887dff5312fb for appdynamics/controller>]>
200
CaseInsensitiveDict({'content-encoding': 'gzip', 'x-powered-by': 'JSP/2.2', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'set-cookie': 'JSESSIONID=cb10906c6219c07f887dff5312fb; Path=/controller; HttpOnly', 'expires': 'Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:03:37 GMT', 'server': 'nginx/1.1.19', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'pragma': 'no-cache', 'cache-control': 'max-age=78000', 'date': 'Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:23:37 GMT', 'content-type': 'text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1'})
But when I try to get data from different location, - I'm got 401 error
<<class 'requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar'>[]>
401
CaseInsensitiveDict({'content-length': '1073', 'x-powered-by': 'Servlet/3.0 JSP/2.2 (GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.2.2 Java/Oracle Corporation/1.7)', 'expires': 'Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC', 'server': 'nginx/1.1.19', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'pragma': 'No-cache', 'cache-control': 'no-cache', 'date': 'Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:23:37 GMT', 'content-type': 'text/html', 'www-authenticate': 'Basic realm="controller_realm"'})
As far as I understand - in second request are not substituted session parameters.
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To achieve this authentication, typically one provides authentication data through Authorization header or a custom header defined by server. Replace “user” and “pass” with your username and password. It will authenticate the request and return a response 200 or else it will return error 403.
There are a few common authentication methods for REST APIs that can be handled with Python Requests. The simplest way is to pass your username and password to the appropriate endpoint as HTTP Basic Auth; this is equivalent to typing your username and password into a website.
You'll need to import the following first. Part of the basic authentication header consists of the username and password encoded as Base64. In the HTTP header you will see this line Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ= . The encoded string changes depending on your username and password.
For HTTP basic authentication, each request must include an authentication header, with a base-64 encoded value. Where siteName is the company name you use to log in to Eloqua, and username and password are your Eloqua username and password.
You need to use a session object and send the authentication each request. The session will also track cookies for you:
session = requests.Session()
session.auth = (user, password)
auth = session.post('http://' + hostname)
response = session.get('http://' + hostname + '/rest/applications')
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
res = requests.post('https://api.github.com/user', auth=HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'password'))
print(res)
In Python3 it becomes easy:
import requests
response = requests.get(uri, auth=(user, password))
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