No need to implement your own! in most cases Requests has built in support for proxies, for basic authentication: proxies = { ‘https’ : ‘https://user:password@proxyip:port’ } r = requests.get(‘https://url’, proxies=proxies) see more on the docs Or in case you need digest authentication HTTPDigestAuth may help. Or you might need try to extend it like yutaka2487 … Read more
The main difference is that it doesn’t require sending the username and password across the wire in plaintext. It is also immune to replay-attacks, as it uses a one-time number from the server. The server gives the client a one-time use number (a nonce) that it combines with the username, realm, password and the URI … Read more
Digest Authentication communicates credentials in an encrypted form by applying a hash function to: the username, the password, a server supplied nonce value, the HTTP method and the requested URI. Whereas Basic Authentication uses non-encrypted base64 encoding. Therefore, Basic Authentication should generally only be used where transport layer security is provided such as https. See … Read more
From RFC 1945 (HTTP/1.0) and RFC 2617 (HTTP Authentication referenced by HTTP/1.1) The realm attribute (case-insensitive) is required for all authentication schemes which issue a challenge. The realm value (case-sensitive), in combination with the canonical root URL of the server being accessed, defines the protection space. These realms allow the protected resources on a server … Read more