Changes between Version 74 and Version 75 of XmlRpcPlugin

Timestamp:

Feb 11, 2010, 11:52:48 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Jon Schewe

Comment:

Added information about how to do digest authentication with python

XmlRpcPlugin

@@ -164 +164 @@
 server.wiki.putAttachment('WikiStart/t.py', xmlrpclib.Binary(open('t.py').read())) 
 }}} 
+
+==== Using Digest Authentication in python ====
+One can use digest authentication if you know the realm that you're connecting to. This shows up in the login box "server says '<realm'". 
+
+{{{
+class HTTPSDigestTransport(xmlrpclib.SafeTransport):
+    """
+    Transport that uses urllib2 so that we can do Digest authentication.
+    
+    Based upon code at http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/509382-solution-xml-rpc-over-proxy
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, username, pw, realm, verbose = None, use_datetime=0):
+        self.__username = username
+        self.__pw = pw
+        self.__realm = realm
+        self.verbose = verbose
+        self._use_datetime = use_datetime
+
+    def request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose):
+        import urllib2
+
+        url='https://'+host+handler
+        if verbose or self.verbose:
+            print "ProxyTransport URL: [%s]"%url
+
+        request = urllib2.Request(url)
+        request.add_data(request_body)
+        # Note: 'Host' and 'Content-Length' are added automatically
+        request.add_header("User-Agent", self.user_agent)
+        request.add_header("Content-Type", "text/xml") # Important
+
+        # setup digest authentication
+        authhandler = urllib2.HTTPDigestAuthHandler()
+        authhandler.add_password(self.__realm, url, self.__username, self.__pw)
+        opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)
+
+        #proxy_handler=urllib2.ProxyHandler()
+        #opener=urllib2.build_opener(proxy_handler)
+        f=opener.open(request)
+        return(self.parse_response(f))
+
+digestTransport = HTTPSDigestTransport("username", "password", "realm")
+server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("https://host/login/xmlrpc", transport=digestTransport)
+
+}}}
+
          
 === Using from C# ===