Question

how and with which python library is it possible to make an httprequest (https) with a user:password or a token?

basically the equivalent to curl -u user:pwd https://www.mysite.com/

thank you

Answer 1

class urllib2.HTTPSHandler
A class to handle opening of HTTPS URLs.

21.6.7. HTTPPasswordMgr Objects
These methods are available on HTTPPasswordMgr and HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm objects.

HTTPPasswordMgr.add_password(realm, uri, user, passwd)
uri can be either a single URI, or a sequence of URIs. realm, user and passwd must be strings. This causes (user, passwd) to be used as authentication tokens when authentication for realm and a super-URI of any of the given URIs is given.
HTTPPasswordMgr.find_user_password(realm, authuri)
Get user/password for given realm and URI, if any. This method will return (None, None) if there is no matching user/password.

For HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm objects, the realm None will be searched if the given realm has no matching user/password.