Building RESTful Python Web Services

Composing requests with the necessary authentication

Now, we will compose and send an HTTP request to retrieve the first page of the messages without authentication credentials:

http POST ':5000/api/messages/?page=1'

The following is the equivalent curl command:

curl -iX GET ':5000/api/messages/?page=1'

We will receive a 401 Unauthorized status code in the response header. The following lines show a sample response:

HTTP/1.0 401 UNAUTHORIZED
Content-Length: 19
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 01:16:36 GMT
Server: Werkzeug/0.11.10 Python/3.5.1
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Authentication Required"

If we want to retrieve messages, that is, to make a GET request to /api/messages/, we need to provide authentication credentials ...