September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
10h 46m
English
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Authentication with the requests module
With the requests module, we can connect with servers that support Basic and Digest authentication. With basic authentication, the information about the user and password is sent in base64 format, and with digest the information about the user and password is sent in hash with the md5 or sha1 algorithm.