Python, HTTPS GET with basic authentication

by

In Python 3 the following will work. I am using the lower level http.client from the standard library. Also check out section 2 of rfc2617 for details of basic authorization. This code won’t check the certificate is valid, but will set up a https connection. See the http.client docs on how to do that.

from http.client import HTTPSConnection
from base64 import b64encode
#This sets up the https connection
c = HTTPSConnection("www.google.com")
#we need to base 64 encode it 
#and then decode it to acsii as python 3 stores it as a byte string
userAndPass = b64encode(b"username:password").decode("ascii")
headers = { 'Authorization' : 'Basic %s' %  userAndPass }
#then connect
c.request('GET', "https://stackoverflow.com/", headers=headers)
#get the response back
res = c.getresponse()
# at this point you could check the status etc
# this gets the page text
data = res.read()

More Related Contents:

  1. Print elements of list horizontally [closed]
  2. How do i get my code to return the the answer without the extra '' and ()
  3. Python eval() not multiplying properly
  4. Get raw key value
  5. Download file from web in Python 3
  6. Fixed digits after decimal with f-strings
  7. Print multiple arguments in Python
  8. Python, TypeError: unhashable type: ‘list’
  9. zip variable empty after first use
  10. How to convert ‘binary string’ to normal string in Python3?
  11. Importing from a relative path in Python
  12. Extract Number from String in Python
  13. DLL load failed when importing PyQt5
  14. How to get if a key is pressed pygame [duplicate]
  15. Using Python Requests: Sessions, Cookies, and POST
  16. How to translate “bytes” objects into literal strings in pandas Dataframe, Python3.x?
  17. cx_Freeze converted GUI-app (tkinter) crashes after pressing plot button
  18. Python pandas: remove everything after a delimiter in a string
  19. How to get the physical interface IP address from an interface
  20. Difference between “grid” and “pack” geometry managers
  21. TypeError: object() takes no parameters after defining __new__
  22. selenium – Failed to execute ‘evaluate’ on ‘Document’: The string is not a valid XPath expression
  23. Windows can’t find the file on subprocess.call()
  24. How do I return dictionary keys as a list in Python?
  25. Python dictionary replace values
  26. Rounding error in Python with non-odd number? [duplicate]
  27. What are the differences between bool() and operator.truth()?
  28. Python sort list by first number in a string
  29. Python 3.4: How to import a module given the full path? [duplicate]
  30. bash: Python import – Command not found for pandas

Leave a Comment