What is the cleanest way to do HTTP POST with Basic Auth in Python?
Using only the Python core libs.
What is the cleanest way to do HTTP POST with Basic Auth in Python?
Using only the Python core libs.
Seriously, just use requests
:
import requests
resp = requests.post(url, data={}, auth=('user', 'pass'))
It's a pure python library, installing is as easy as easy_install requests
or pip install requests
. It has an extremely simple and easy to use API, and it fixes bugs in urllib2
so you don't have to. Don't make your life harder because of silly self-imposed requirements.
Hackish workaround works:
`urllib.urlopen("https://username:password@hostname/path", data)`
Lot of people don't realize that old syntax for specifying username and password in URL works in urllib.urlopen. It doesn't appear the username or password require any encoding, except perhaps if the password included an @ symbol.
if you define a url, username, password, and some post-data, this should work in Python2...
import urllib2
passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
passman.add_password(None, url, username, password)
auth_handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(auth_handler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
content = urllib2.urlopen(url, post_data)
example from official Python docs showing Basic Auth in urllib2: * http://docs.python.org/release/2.6/howto/urllib2.html
full tutorial on Basic Authentication using urllib2: * http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml