Consuming HTTP Services in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Accessing authenticated HTTP services
Lecture: Concept: Adding authentication to requests
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Now you've seen how to use requests
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to access restricted authorization requiring services,
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so what we have to pass is that authorization header with the basic value
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set to the basic c4 encoded version of username:password,
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but remember, it's not encrypted, it's just obscured,
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so how does this work, of course, everything more or less is the same,
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other than the authentication, so we import request, we come up with the url,
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we try to do a get against the service and we saw oh 401, not so amazing,
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401 is you didn't log in, you are unauthorized, right,
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so we just go and set the auth as a tuple, username,password,
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and then ta- da, everything is 200 ok.
