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Created August 21, 2011 14:52
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Testing Flask application with basic authentication
import base64
from myapplication import app
class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.app = app.test_client()
def tearDown(self):
pass
def open_with_auth(self, url, method, username, password):
return self.app.open(url,
method=method,
headers={
'Authorization': 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode(username + \
":" + password)
}
)
def test_login(self):
res = self.open_with_auth('/user/login', 'GET', 'username',
'password')
@markosski
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It's probably too late but seems like b64encode requires binary string - in this case you could do 'Authorization': 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode(bytes(username + ":" + password, 'ascii')).decode('ascii')

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