Alex Hall wrote:
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!
That's remarkable. By definition, the hexdigest should be nothing but
hex digits 0...9a...f. There shouldn't be anything there that needs
quoting, or changes after quoting:
>>> hashlib.md5("hello world").hexdigest()
'5eb63bbbe01eeed093cb22bb8f5acdc3'
>>> urllib.quote(hashlib.md5("hello world").hexdigest())
'5eb63bbbe01eeed093cb22bb8f5acdc3'
I am amazed that your password works with quoting but not without it. It
shouldn't make any difference.
--
Steven
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