New submission from Brian Mingus: The python documentation links to an outside website for info and examples on http basic auth. This documentation is terrible and confusing. The link should be removed, and user's should be advised to use the Requests library.
# this example is from http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/authentication.shtml # which is linked to by the official python docs http://docs.python.org/2/howto/urllib2.html import urllib2 theurl = 'http://www.someserver.com/toplevelurl/somepage.htm' username = 'johnny' password = 'XXXXXX' # a great password passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() # this creates a password manager passman.add_password(None, theurl, username, password) # because we have put None at the start it will always # use this username/password combination for urls # for which `theurl` is a super-url authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman) # create the AuthHandler opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler) urllib2.install_opener(opener) # All calls to urllib2.urlopen will now use our handler # Make sure not to include the protocol in with the URL, or # HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm will be very confused. # You must (of course) use it when fetching the page though. pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(theurl) # authentication is now handled automatically for us ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 196854 nosy: docs@python, mingus priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Python docs link to terrible outsi versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18914> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
