requests-negotiate

requests-negotiate

An implementation of HTTP Negotiate authentication (RFC 4559) for requests.

Negotiate authentication is commonly used to provide Kerberos authentication through GSSAPI.

Usage

Here's a trivial example:

import requests
import requests_negotiate

auth = requests_negotiate.HTTPNegotiateAuth()
response = requests.get('https://example.org/', auth=auth)

You'll need a valid Kerberos ticket - acquired using e.g. kinit - for this to work.

Options

You can instantiate an HTTPNegotiateAuth with the following optional parameters:

• service - A Kerberos principal is generally composed of a service name (e.g. 'HTTP') and a hostname, separated by a slash ('/'). This lets you override the default service of 'HTTP'.
• service_name - Overrides the full service name (e.g. 'HTTP/example.org')
• negotiate_client_name - Explicitly specify which client principal to authenticate as. Particularly useful when you're using a credential cache collection.