Handling windows authentication while accessing url using requests

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I am using python request library to access the soap requests. And it was working fine. As there is change in our domain structure. I could not access the url, it always prompting me to enter the credentials.

I am using below code to access the url earlier using requests.

program_list_response = requests.get(program_list_path,
                                                 data=self.body, headers=self.headers)

How to pass the authentication in background using requests?

ρss · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-31 07:15:12Z

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You can use the Authentication feature for that in order to provide the credentials for the link that you want to access.

For an eg:

You can pass the username and password by using the below format:

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

For more details I would recommend the official docs.

For handling the Windows authentication then I would recommend the Requests-NTLM.

For eg:

import requests
from requests_ntlm import HttpNtlmAuth

requests.get("http://ntlm_protected_site.com",auth=HttpNtlmAuth('domain\\username','password'))

edited Aug 31, 2015 at 7:15

answered Aug 31, 2015 at 7:07

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4 Comments

George Over a year ago

Keep in mind all the different authentication methods, e.g. although the device I was trying to access was basic and the interface looked like it, I needed the auth=HTTPDigestAuth('user', 'pass')

Nathan Clement Over a year ago

For future people looking at this, I've spent a while looking around at different options and the HttpNtlmAuth solution was the only one that worked for me.

rayzinnz Over a year ago

To expand on this topic, if you are already logged into a domain, and don't want to keep the username and password stored in your script, use requests-negotiate-sspi instead of requests_ntlm

Chris Collett Over a year ago

@rayzinnz Excellent suggestion - this was exactly what I was searching for. It's actually a PyPi project, as well, and can be installed via pip: pypi.org/project/requests-negotiate-sspi

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