How to send username:password to unittest's app.get() request?
From RFC 1945, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
11.1 Basic Authentication Scheme
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To receive authorization, the client sends the user-ID and password, separated by a single colon (":") character, within a base64 [5] encoded string in the credentials.string.
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If the user agent wishes to send the user-ID "Aladdin" and password open sesame", it would use the following header field:
Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==
So if you really use http basic authentication you can solution like below, although your curl
usage suggests some other authentication scheme.
from base64 import b64encode
headers = {
'Authorization': 'Basic ' + b64encode("{0}:{1}".format(username, password)).decode('utf-8')
}
rv = self.app.get('api/v1.0/{0}'.format(ios_sync_timestamp), headers=headers)
An alternative solution - All credit goes to Doug Black
def request(self, method, url, auth=None, **kwargs):
headers = kwargs.get('headers', {})
if auth:
headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode(auth[0] + ':' + auth[1])
kwargs['headers'] = headers
return self.app.open(url, method=method, **kwargs)
and then use this method in your tests:
resp = self.request('GET', 'api/v1.0/{0}'.format(ios_sync_timestamp), auth=(username, password))
For Python 3, try the following example:
from base64 import b64encode
headers = {
'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % b64encode(b"username:password").decode("ascii")
}
self.app.get("foo/", headers=headers)
If you'd like to use dynamic variables for username and password, then try something like:
'Basic %s' % b64encode(bytes(username + ':' + password, "utf-8")).decode("ascii")
See also: Python, HTTPS GET with basic authentication