Consuming HTTP Services in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Accessing authenticated HTTP services
Lecture: Concept: Authenticated requests with Python 3's urllib.requests
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Let's look at the concepts behind authenticated basic auth request with urllib,
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so again, we import urllib.request, this is the Python 3 version,
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we have our url, and what we did is globally, one time we ran this code,
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we said we want to set up a password manager,
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so an http password manager with default realm and then,
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we came along and added a password, no realm register the base url,
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and said kennedy and super_lockdown, those are the username and the password,
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and we created an http basic auth handler with that password manager,
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and then we created an opener based on that handler,
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and finally, we installed that opener,
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and then any time there was a request going to that url through urllib,
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it used this authenticated http basic auth handler that we had registered here.
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We compose this and globally install it and it's done, so that is kind of nice,
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but, it seems like there should be a simpler way to do this huh?
