Python3 using requests to grab HTTP Auth Data

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Νίκος Βέργος <me.on.nzt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Τη Τετάρτη, 1 Φεβρουαρίου 2017 - 11:41:28 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Michael Torrie έγραψε:
>> On 02/01/2017 01:51 PM, Νίκος Βέργος wrote:
>> > as well as input() for both user & pass combo but iam not getting in chrome the basic pop-up HTTP auth window.
>> >
>> > Any idea why?
>>
>> What you're describing is not something you can do with an interactive
>> Python script.  HTTP-level authentication is requested of your browser
>> by the web server itself.  On Apache there are numerous methods you can
>> use.  Individual users can use .htaccess directives to add
>> authentication to a directory, for example.  You'll need to learn about it:
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=apache+http+authentication
>>
>> If you're using a framework like Django, there are mechanisms for
>> checking the username and password against a Python method.  Again,
>> google for http authentication and whatever framework you're using.
>>
>> I once used a special python script that was called by an Apache module
>> to verify users against a customized LDAP filter.  Again, that involves
>> server cooperation though a module.
>>
>> In general, the browser pops up the username and password box in
>> response to a request from the web server.  It's not something your CGI
>> script can just do without some cooperation from the web server.
>
> I used to have this workaround solution for triggering the web server to pop-up the HTTP Auth window
>
> print '''<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://superhost.gr/data/files/%s">''' % file_requested
>
> and i have tried to read the the login auth name that user entered by using
>
> authuser = os.environ.get( 'REMOTE_USER', 'Άγνωστος' )
>
> unfortunately it always failes to receive it that's why i'm trying to do the trick with the requests module.

Fails how? It doesn't ask the user, or the environment variable is empty?

requests is an HTTP client library. It's not very useful server-side
unless you're talking to other servers. It is, in any case,
nonsensical to send an HTTP request to the browser.