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urllib2 HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm 'loses' password after 5 requests
When sending email to the mailgun API I have encountered a curious Python problem that I can't resolve: the PasswordMgr created by urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() seems to lose the password ...
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Retrieve json form api with basic authentication python
Hello I'm making a python script for geektool to monitor my incoming mobile messages.
I've succeed to make it in java but i've never used python.
api url: ...
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Basic timeout for HTTP Basic Auth
I'm serving up a static file that to view requires a basic login and password. Currently I'm just using this snippet: http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/8/
right now it just stays active until the ...
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How do I make Python urlib2 to cleverly avoid the security check while trying to log into a site?
I am trying to crawl a website for the first time. I am using urllib2 Python
I am currently trying to log into Foursquare social networking site using Python urlib2 and Beautifulsoup. To view a ...
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Security of python flask REST API using HTTP Basic Authentication
I have python flask running on my server exposing a REST API that is being consumed by an iOS app. I'm using HTTP Basic Authentication using the Flask-HTTPAuth: module. I wanted to know how secure ...
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Django Basic HTTP AUTH
I am testing out Django 1.6 under Windows 7 using its integrated web server for debug purposes.
At some point I have a view that needs to be protected by authentication. (for debug purposes - not ...
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What is the cleanest way to do HTTP POST with basic auth in Python?
What is the cleanest way to do HTTP POST with Basic Auth in Python?
Using only the Python core libs.
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Accessing a web page with basic auth on python
I'm trying to connect a web page with mechanize but I'm getting a http 401 error.
Here's my code;
import base64, mechanize
url = "http://www.dogus.edu.tr/dusor/FrmMain.aspx"
user = "user"
pwd = ...
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Flask-login request_loader not working?
I'm trying to implement Basic Auth on my Flask application with the Flask-Login extension. Following the documentation i tried an example request loader, but it gives me a 401 Unauthorized error, ...
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TypeError: native Qt signal is not callable
I'm trying to make a request to a protected webpage, so therefore I'm trying to authenticate with help from QAuthenticator(). However, I get the following error:
mgr.authenticationRequired(response, ...
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Python SOAP client, WSDL call with suds gives Transport Error 401 Unauthorized for HTTP basic authentication
Background
I'm building a SOAP client with python 2.7.3 and using the suds 0.4.1 library provided by Canonical. The server is using basic authentication over HTTPS.
Problem
Can't pass ...
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urllib2: correct way how to add a header to the *initial* request via AuthHandler?
this is probably a dumb question but I just cannot find a way how to create AuthHandler which would add Authorization header to the FIRST request. The only thing I see in urllib2.py are various ...
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How to convert Python HTTP Post to Coldfusion HTTP Post with Authentication
How to convert Python HTTP Post to CF HTTP Post with Basic Authentication?
There seems to be an issue with the CF HTTP Post Authentication.
It can't connect to the other side.
What am I missing in ...
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HTTP Basic Authentication Doesn't Seem to Work with urllib2 in python
I'm trying to download a page protected with basic authentication using urllib2. I'm using python 2.7 but I also tried it on another computer with python 2.5 and encountered the exact same behavior. I ...
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How to authenticate a site with Python using urllib2?
After much reading here on Stackoverflow as well as the web I'm still struggling with getting things to work.
My challenge: to get access to a restricted part of a website for which I'm a member ...
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How to add a challenge header in a forbidden_view using pyramid? [closed]
When I define a forbidden view using @forbidden_view_config I want to challenge the client for user and password. How do I do this?
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How to do a basic authentication in a functional view in Django?
I want to do a basic authentication on a functional view. The view is expecting a POST request from a client script. So as soon as the client is authenticated, it will POST some new data to the view.
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Python urllib2 accesses page without sending authentication details
I was reading urllib2 tutorial wherein it mentions that in order to access a page that requires authentication (e.g. valid username and password), the server first sends an HTTP header with error code ...
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Django basic authentication in functional View
I am looking to apply an Basic Authentication mechanism to the functions in my view functions.
I have some view functions that return JSON data via a template. If I visit my app via a webrowser, I ...
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BasicAuth Prompt won't show with Status 401
I don't see a password prompt in IE/Firefox even when I send the 401 status code with Tornado:-
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web
class UserHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
def ...
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how to add authentication to a wsgiref python web service
I am working on a sample code given in the python documentation, the code is:
from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server, demo_app
httpd = make_server('', 8000, demo_app)
print "Serving HTTP on ...
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HTTP Basic Authentication is failing in python script
I am trying to connect to a REST resource and retrieve the data using Python script (Python 3.2.3). When I run the script I am getting error as HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized. Please note that I am able ...
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Python httplib2 is not working for authenticated resource
I have a resource which is authenticated which requires realm, username and password for authentication.
Python's urllib2 has provision to provide realm whereas i did not find any provision for ...
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Selenium stuck loading frame with basic authentication
I'm using selenium in python to check the page of a website that uses basic authentication on one frame. I'm checking to see if the password I am entering is correct or not, so the basic ...
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Basic Auth urllib2 with HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm and POST data
I have this cURL call that works perfectly:
curl -H 'X-Requested-With: SO demo' -d 'parameter=value' https://username:[email protected]/api/work/
My conversion does not work.
import ...
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Does django natively integrate with HTTP Basic Authorization
ONe of my system components is using the Basic HTTP Authrozation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication ) for log in information. Another part of my system is running a django ...
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How to debug urllib2 request that uses a basic authentication handler
I'm making a request using urllib2 and the HTTPBasicAuthHandler like so:
import urllib2
theurl = 'http://someurl.com'
username = 'username'
password = 'password'
passman = ...
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How to check contents of incoming HTTP header request
I'm playing around with some APIs and I'm trying to figure this out.
I am making a basic HTTP authenticated request to my server via the API. As part of this request, the authenticated key is stored ...
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Python HTTPS client with basic authentication via proxy
From Python, I would like to retrieve content from a web site via HTTPS with basic authentication. I need the content on disk. I am on an intranet, trusting the HTTPS server. Platform is Python 2.6.2 ...
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HTTP basic authentication using sockets in python
How to connect to a server using basic http auth thru sockets in python .I don't want to use urllib/urllib2 etc as my program does some low level socket I/O operations
