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Jay Norris
14,824 Pointsusername and password referenced in GET url?
In the workshop, you're requesting data from httpbin and the username and password are also stored at httpbin? I don't understand that part of it.
What if you were requesting data from httpbin, but the username and password weren't also stored there?
I just finished Django Rest Framework course too. (Great course!) I need to GET information from an API using digest auth for my Django project. I'm provided an "api key" and "secret key", but I still don't understand where/how to store and reference them when calling the API.
2 Answers
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherWith httpbin, whatever username and password you send in the URL is the one it auths you against.
They gave you keys for digest auth? That sounds more like OAuth.
Jay Norris
14,824 PointsMuch appreciated! Last question, I promise. They confirm it's digest and even provided a python example. I'm still confused after researching it though. The requests library probably makes that simpler, but do I need to create a file on my site to store that data to respond with?
The api returns the price of Rx medications. Here is what they say:
"It’s definitely just a digest, not OAuth – here’s a quick example using python":
querystring = Lipitor&api_key=MY_API_KEY
signature = hmac.new(secret_key, msg=querystring, digestmod=hashlib.sha256).digest()
signature = base64.b64encode(signature, “__”)
?name=Lipitor&api_key=MY_API_KEY&sig=gn9UAFOfMaEOMEmzH0hpk7k_QnRe1inD_=