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| -rw-r--r-- | src/mailman/rest/docs/basic.txt | 32 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/mailman/rest/docs/basic.txt b/src/mailman/rest/docs/basic.txt index 177082c4a..614b074ba 100644 --- a/src/mailman/rest/docs/basic.txt +++ b/src/mailman/rest/docs/basic.txt @@ -44,13 +44,33 @@ Invalid credentials When you try to access the REST server using invalid credentials you will get an appropriate HTTP 401 Unauthorized error. +:: - >>> dump_json('http://localhost:8001/3.0/system', - ... username='baduser', password='badpass') - Traceback (most recent call last): - ... - HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: 401 Unauthorized - ... + >>> from base64 import b64encode + >>> auth = b64encode('baduser:badpass') + + >>> url = 'http://localhost:8001/3.0/system' + >>> headers = { + ... 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencode', + ... 'Authorization': 'Basic ' + auth, + ... } + + >>> from httplib2 import Http + >>> response, content = Http().request(url, 'GET', None, headers) + >>> print content + 401 Unauthorized + <BLANKLINE> + User is not authorized for the REST API + <BLANKLINE> + +But with the right headers, the request succeeds. + + >>> auth = b64encode('{0}:{1}'.format(config.webservice.admin_user, + ... config.webservice.admin_pass)) + >>> headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic ' + auth + >>> response, content = Http().request(url, 'GET', None, headers) + >>> print response.status + 200 .. _REST: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST |