Im trying to do a HTTPS GET with basic authentication using python. Im very new to python and the guides seem to use diffrent librarys to do things. (http.client, httplib and urllib). Can anyone show me how its done? How can you tell the standard library to use?
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Based on the @AndrewCox 's answer with some minor improvements:
from http.client import HTTPSConnection
from base64 import b64encode
client = HTTPSConnection("www.google.com")
user = "user_name"
password = "password"
headers = {
"Authorization": "Basic {}".format(
b64encode(bytes(f"{user}:{password}", "utf-8")).decode("ascii")
)
}
client.request('GET', '/', headers=headers)
res = client.getresponse()
data = res.read()
Note, you should set encoding if you use bytes function instead of b"".
requests.get(url, auth=requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(username=token, password=''))
If with token, password should be ''.
It works for me.
using only standard modules and no manual header encoding
...which seems to be the intended and most portable way
the concept of python urllib is to group the numerous attributes of the request into various managers/directors/contexts... which then process their parts:
import urllib.request, ssl
# to avoid verifying ssl certificates
httpsHa = urllib.request.HTTPSHandler(context= ssl._create_unverified_context())
# setting up realm+urls+user-password auth
# (top_level_url may be sequence, also the complete url, realm None is default)
top_level_url = 'https://ip:port_or_domain'
# of the std managers, this can send user+passwd in one go,
# not after HTTP req->401 sequence
password_mgr = urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth()
password_mgr.add_password(None, top_level_url, "user", "password", is_authenticated=True)
handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
# create OpenerDirector
opener = urllib.request.build_opener(handler, httpsHa)
url = top_level_url + '/some_url?some_query...'
response = opener.open(url)
print(response.read())
GET & POST request is usually used to submit forms. Here is a brief example of its usage
Views.py
def index(request)
col1 = float(request.GET.get('col1'))
index.html
<div class="form-group col-md-2">
<label for="Col 1">Price</label>
<input type="number" class="form-control" id="col1" name="col1">
</div>
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