Looking for examples of accessing Tomcat applications from Python.
I will be looking myself, and will post what I learn here, but so far Tomcat applications that require authentication are giving my python applications a 401 no matter what I try.
Does Not Work
import urllib2, base64
myUrl = 'http://localhost:8080/manager/html'
username = 'root'
password = 'r00t4me'
req = urllib2.Request(myUrl)
base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password))[:-1]
authheader = "Basic %s" % base64string
req.add_header("Authorization", authheader)
try:
f = urllib2.urlopen( myUrl )
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
if e.code == 401:
print 'not authorized'
elif e.code == 404:
print 'not found'
elif e.code == 503:
print 'service unavailable'
else:
print 'unknown error: '
else:
print 'success'
for line in f:
print line,This yields a 401 'not authorized' when it should not, i.e. the username and password are correct. This is to connect to the page for the Tomcat manager application as a test, not to do any real work.