Python uses Requests to handle HTTP authentication, supporting basic authentication, abstract authentication, and other methods
Preparation work:
1. Install Python: Ensure that the Python environment has been installed. You can access it from the official website https://www.python.org/downloads/ Download and install the latest version of Python.
2. Install the Requests library: Open a terminal or command prompt and enter the following command to install the Requests library.
pip install requests
After the environment is set up, we can start implementing examples of HTTP authentication.
Basic certification example:
Basic authentication is the simplest HTTP authentication method, and the client needs to provide a username and password for authentication.
python
import requests
#Send GET requests using Requests and perform basic authentication
url = 'https://api.example.com/some/endpoint'
username = 'my_username'
password = 'my_password'
response = requests.get(url, auth=(username, password))
#Print response status code and content
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)
Summary authentication example:
Abstract authentication is more secure than basic authentication, as it uses a digest algorithm to encrypt the password in the sent request.
python
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPDigestAuth
#Send GET requests using Requests and perform summary authentication
url = 'https://api.example.com/some/endpoint'
username = 'my_username'
password = 'my_password'
response = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPDigestAuth(username, password))
#Print response status code and content
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)
Summary:
This article introduces the methods of using the Requests library to handle HTTP authentication, including basic authentication and digest authentication. Basic authentication uses username and password for authentication, while digest authentication is more secure, using digest algorithms to encrypt passwords. When implementing the sample, we only need to specify the authentication method and provide the corresponding username and password. At the same time, Requests also supports other types of authentication methods, such as OAuth authentication and Bearer Token authentication, and selects the appropriate authentication method based on actual needs.
