Simple method for connecting to Solve360 API

qsolve360

import base64
import httplib
import logging
import string
try:
    import simplejson as json
except ImportError:
    import json

class settings:
    SOLVE360_USER = "user@email.address"
    SOLVE360_PASS = "API-KEY"
    SOLVE360_SERVER = "secure.solve360.com"


verb = 'GET'
uri = '/contacts/categories/'
body = ''

conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(settings.SOLVE360_SERVER)
conn.set_debuglevel(1)
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % base64.encodestring(":".join([settings.SOLVE360_USER, settings.SOLVE360_PASS]).encode('utf-8')).replace('\n', ''),
    'Content-type': 'application/json',
    'Accept': 'application/json',
    }

if not verb in ['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE']:
    print 'ERROR: Invalid verb for Solve360 %s' % verb
    exit()

conn.request(verb, uri, body, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
if response.status != 200:
    print 'ERROR: Unable to post to Solve360 at %s - %s:%s\nPayload: %s' % (uri, response.status, response.reason, body)
else:
    print response.read()
    conn.close()