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Asked: 2026-05-11T11:49:48+00:00

Whats is the python urllib equivallent of curl -u username:password status=abcd http://example.com/update.json I did

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Whats is the python urllib 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('Authorization', authheader)

Is there a better / simpler way?

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  1. The trick is to create a password manager, and then tell urllib about it. Usually, you won’t care about the realm of the authentication, just the host/url part. For example, the following:

    password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm() top_level_url = 'http://example.com/' password_mgr.add_password(None, top_level_url, 'user', 'password') handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr) opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPHandler, handler) request = urllib2.Request(url)

    Will set the user name and password to every URL starting with top_level_url. Other options are to specify a host name or more complete URL here.

    A good document describing this and more is at http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml#id6.

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