[Engine-devel] auth issue

[Hui Kai Ran]

Hi, all

When I access the REST API like this
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import urllib2
theurl = 'http://9.181.129.112:8080/api'
username = 'admin at internal'
password = 'abcd1234'
# a great password

passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()

passman.add_password('ENGINE', theurl, username, password)

authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)

opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)

urllib2.install_opener(opener)
pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(theurl)
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urlopen failed.

then We do that another way like this, it is ok
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import urllib2
import sys
import re
import base64
import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree

username='admin at internal'
password='abcd1234'

request = urllib2.Request("http://9.181.129.112:8080/api")
base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, 
password)).replace('\n', '')
request.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)
result = urllib2.urlopen(request)

by catching the packets transfered, we found the response from 
ovirt-engine server as below for failing case:
================================================================
GET /api HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: identity
Host: 9.181.129.112:8080
Connection: close
User-Agent: Python-urllib/2.7

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm = "ENGINE"
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 956
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 09:18:06 GMT
Connection: close

Is there anything wrong for oVirt-engine?

Thanks!