Converting CURL Command to Python 2.7

Question

I have a curl command that works perfectly fine and gives me a HTTP 200.

curl -i -H "Authorization: Basic jadkfhjkafDSKJ12DD=" http://<ip>/LoadTest/rest/authentication-point/authenticate

The above API needs the authorization in base64 format and the details have to be passed as Headers. This is a GET request.

When I try to run the same in Python 2.7, I get Response [403]. Code below.

import requests
headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic jadkfhjkafDSKJ12DD='}
authurl = "http://<ip>/LoadTest/rest/authentication-point/authenticate"
r = requests.get(authurl, headers=headers)
print r.status_code

What am I missing here? How should i pass the authorization values exactly like I passed in the curl command? I've tried multiple ways but still end up getting HTTP 403 always. Kindly guide.

Wouldn't the easiest way to solve this to be capturing the network traffic and seeing what's different in your calls? — James Z, Oct 22 '17 at 07:24
May be one of these pitfalls (from http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/): 1. Authorization headers set with headers= will be overridden if credentials are specified in .netrc, which in turn will be overridden by the auth= parameter. 2. Authorization headers will be removed if you get redirected off-host. — Timofey Chernousov, Oct 22 '17 at 08:13
Thanks for the inputs Tim. After i made a few changes and add `session = requests.Session()` `session.trust_env = False`, i get HTTP 500 now — sdgd, Oct 22 '17 at 08:31
Finally it worked, added the solution. Thanks all for your inputs — sdgd, Oct 22 '17 at 08:35

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 22 '17 at 08:37

Thanks all for your inputs. This is the final solution. I found that there is proxy that is stopping the payload. So added the session to the request.

import requests
session = requests.Session()
session.trust_env = False
headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic jadkfhjkafDSKJ12DD='}
authurl = "http://<ip>/LoadTest/rest/authentication-point/authenticate"
r = session.get(authurl, headers=headers)
print r.status_code

Setting the trust_env=False ignores the following:

Authentication information from .netrc (code)
CA bundles defined in REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE or CURL_CA_BUNDLE (code)

Converting CURL Command to Python 2.7

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