[SOLVED] How do I use basic HTTP authentication with the Python Requests library?

How do I use basic HTTP authentication with the Python Requests library?

I'm trying to use basic HTTP authentication in Python. I am using the Requests library:

auth = requests.post('http://' + hostname, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(user, password))
request = requests.get('http://' + hostname + '/rest/applications')

Response form auth variable:

<<class 'requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar'>[<Cookie JSESSIONID=cb10906c6219c07f887dff5312fb for appdynamics/controller>]>
200
CaseInsensitiveDict({'content-encoding': 'gzip', 'x-powered-by': 'JSP/2.2', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'set-cookie': 'JSESSIONID=cb10906c6219c07f887dff5312fb; Path=/controller; HttpOnly', 'expires': 'Wed, 05 Nov 2014 19:03:37 GMT', 'server': 'nginx/1.1.19', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'pragma': 'no-cache', 'cache-control': 'max-age=78000', 'date': 'Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:23:37 GMT', 'content-type': 'text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1'})

But when I try to get data from different location, I'm getting HTTP Status 401 error:

<<class 'requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar'>[]>
401
CaseInsensitiveDict({'content-length': '1073', 'x-powered-by': 'Servlet/3.0 JSP/2.2 (GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.2.2 Java/Oracle Corporation/1.7)', 'expires': 'Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC', 'server': 'nginx/1.1.19', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'pragma': 'No-cache', 'cache-control': 'no-cache', 'date': 'Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:23:37 GMT', 'content-type': 'text/html', 'www-authenticate': 'Basic realm="controller_realm"'})

As far as I understand, in the second request session parameters are not substituted.

Solution

You need to use a session object and send the authentication each request. The session will also track cookies for you:

session = requests.Session()
session.auth = (user, password)

auth = session.post('http://' + hostname)
response = session.get('http://' + hostname + '/rest/applications')