On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:25:20 -0700 (PDT), Lakshman wrote:
> I am trying to authenticate using urllib2. The basic authentication
> works if I hard code authheaders.
...
> except IOError, e:
> print "Something wrong. This shouldnt happen"
First of all, don't shoot yourself in the foot an
Lakshman wrote:
> Whats is the python urllib2 equivallent of
>
> curl -u username:password status="abcd" http://example.com/update.json
>
> I did this:
>
> handle = urllib2.Request(url)
> authheader = "Basic %s" % base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username,
> password))
> handle.add_header("Author
