[Fedora-suds-list] Authentication

[William R. Dickson]

On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Jeff Ortel wrote:

> But, my guess it that this server isn't doing the challenge &  
> response handshaking defined for basic http authentication as  
> defined in RFC-2617.  See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication 
> .  By default, suds uses the http authentication provided by urllib2  
> which expects the server to request credentials by returning an http  
> 401 code per the specification.
>
> I've heard of servers that don't follow this model so I've added a  
> 2nd transport that simply sends the http header (credentials) on  
> every request and updated the documentation.
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/suds/wiki/Documentation#HTTPAUTHENTICATION
>
> You'll need r537 (0.3.7 beta) to get the new transport.

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> Hope this helps

It did -- worked flawlessly. Thank you very much -- I hope not to have  
to pester for help too often!

-Bill