On 1/29/11, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > 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? I posted on a forum just in case (just found the forums), but it looks like they wanted urllib.quote(hex digest of password). > >>> 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. Almost! It did not work that way, but doing the exact same thing with hexdigest did it. Looks like I had to quote(md5(password).hexdigest()) and that is all it wanted. The default user-agent even works. Thanks! > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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