Auth fail for private github repo

[mw44118]

I've got a private repo here on github. I want to suck down all the issues. This works in curl (password removed):

$ curl -u "mw44118:XXXXXXXX" https://api.github.com/repos/spothero/SpotHero-Splash-Page/issues
{ 
... real data here
}

And this is what happens when I don't include the -u authentication stuff:

$ curl https://api.github.com/repos/spothero/SpotHero-Splash-Page/issues
{ 
  "message": "Not Found"
}

Then I tried the same thing with requests (again XXXXXX ain't really my password):

>>> requests.get('https://api.github.com/repos/spothero/SpotHero-Splash-Page/issues', auth=('mw44118', 'XXXXXXXX'))
<Response [404]>

I wondered if maybe you don't actually send the auth stuff unless the server replies with a 403, and since github is replying with a 404, the requests code never knows to send the credentials.

I tried reading through the requests code, but didn't see anything that supported that guess.

[kennethreitz]

I'm going to have to play with this. #74 may fix the problem, once it is implemented.

[jonashaag]

Same problem here. From Wireshark,

requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))

seems to not send the HTTP authentication headers.

[kennethreitz]

I'm going to get on this tonight.

It's because GitHub's api isn't asking for authentication.

[kennethreitz]

Until I figure out a good method for overriding default HTTP behavior, you can do this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2407126/python-urllib2-basic-auth-problem/2955687#2955687

[kennethreitz]

Alright, a new ForcedHTTPBasicAuthenticationHandler was added, and it's default.

This should work fine now::

requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))

:)

[mw44118]

Thanks for writing this!

I just ran easy_install -U and now it seems to work, because I get a <Response 200> instead of the <Response 404>.

Of course when I tried to read from the response, I got a huge stream of gibberish, but I'll try to figure that out myself.