Alex Hall wrote:
Sorry. http://api.bookshare.org.
Hmmm, I get:
403 Developer Inactive
so that's no help to me. However, I did find this:
http://developer.bookshare.org/docs/Home/
[quote]
For user authenticated services, the user's username will be passed in
via the for parameter in the endpoint path. The password should be
derived as (Java syntax): md5sum(userPassword), where userPassword is
the password of the user on whose behalf the service is being requested.
[end quote]
Unfortunately, that might be Java syntax (and also C syntax, Python
syntax, Fortran syntax, and about a million other languages...) but
there's no clue as to what the result should look like. Do they want an
numeric string? In decimal or some other base? A string?
It may matter. urllib has some problems with https.
Wonderful... Time to find another package?
Not necessarily. Don't jump to conclusions. "Some problems" doesn't
necessarily mean that you're seeing them.
What makes you think you should use the *hex* digest of the password,
rather than some other format?
Honestly, it seemed the logical choice, and the api docs to not say
anything except to md5Sum() the password. I have tried it with and
without the hexdigest() and nothing changed. I will look to see what
else hashlib provides.
Try urllib.quote(hashlib.md5(password).digest()) and see if that helps.
But having said that...
The url should be right. I am now at an error 500 instead of 403,
which is rather strange. I know 500=internal server error, but as far
as I know the api is not down.
Sounds to me that whatever their server is using to authenticate is broken.
--
Steven
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