How to get through basic authentification with python 2.7?

I would like to let the server send email when websites do not respond not HTTP 200. I made a file with python and then crontab execute this file every single minute in my server.

However I could not access one of my website with basic auth by python's file.

servers = ("133.###.###.###:####","133.###.###.###:9200","https://########.net:1##0")
def checkroot(address):
    global result,error_detected
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection( address )
    try:
        conn.request( "GET", "/" )
    except:
        result = result + address + "websites are down\n"
        error_detected = True
        return
    response = conn.getresponse()
    if response.status != 200:
        error_detected = True
    result = result + format_result(address,response) + "\n"
    conn.close()

for each in servers:
    checkroot(each)

Third website has basic authentification. Python version is 2.75.

I would like to be able to access the website and get correct HTTP response.

Solution

You'll need to pass your auth details in the connection headers for URLs requiring Basic Auth:

from base64 import b64encode
# This sets up the https connection
c = HTTPSConnection("www.google.com")
# we need to base 64 encode it
creds = b64encode("username:password")
headers = { 'Authorization' : 'Basic %s' %  creds }
# then connect
c.request('GET', '/', headers=headers)

I'd recommend using the requests library though, which is much easier.