Python urllib2 Basic Auth Problem

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The problem could be that the Python libraries, per HTTP-Standard, first send an unauthenticated request, and then only if it’s answered with a 401 retry, are the correct credentials sent. If the Foursquare servers don’t do “totally standard authentication” then the libraries won’t work.

Try using headers to do authentication:

import urllib2, base64

request = urllib2.Request("http://api.foursquare.com/v1/user")
base64string = base64.b64encode('%s:%s' % (username, password))
request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)   
result = urllib2.urlopen(request)

Had the same problem as you and found the solution from this thread: http://forums.shopify.com/categories/9/posts/27662

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