XMLRPCAuthentication

HowTo: Authentication via XML-RPC (xmlrpclib)

As of version 1.0.1, Fredrik Lundh's xmlrpclib supports Basic Authentication. It is incredibly easy to use. Here is an example:

  su-2.05a$ python2.2
  >>> import xmlrpclib
  >>> server=xmlrpclib.Server("http://admin:adminpass@localhost:8585/")
  >>> print server.acl_users.manage_main()

This would print out the HTML one would see upon viewing source of the main acl_users folder through a web browser.

In a script, you might like to do something like the following:

 import xmlrpclib

 proto = "http"
 user = "admin"
 pass = "asecret"
 host = "localhost"
 port = "8080"
 uri = "%s://%s:%s@%s:%s/" % (proto,user,pass,host,port)
 server = xmlrpclib.Server(uri)
 ...
 etc.