400 bad request: use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, restclient python

Question

I want to access an url which requires the full authentication. The following is my code.

import restclient

res = restclient.GET("x.x.x.x:8181/abc/def", headers = {'username':'admin','password':'admin'})

print res

400 Bad Request

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.
Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.

Hint: https://unassigned-hostname:8181/

Please tell me how to do the full authenticated request using restclient module of python ?.

Answer 1

If your service uses username and password headers for authentication (which I figured out by your example), your request should look like this:

from restclient import Resource

resource = Resource('https://x.x.x.x:8181')
result   = resource.get('/abc/def', headers = {'username':'admin','password':'admin'})

print result

The problem with your previous request was that you were sending plain text HTTP requests to a SSL-enabled port (HTTPS).