From 269eba3e077a1c32c17ac31b94d40a53e2e1f2d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Roesslein <jroesslein@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:36:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Reworked authentication.

---
 api.py  | 27 +++++++++++----------------
 misc.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api.py b/api.py
index ad25b61..7db9bc4 100644
--- a/api.py
+++ b/api.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import urllib
 import urllib2
+import base64
 
 from misc import TweepError, require_auth
 from models import Status, User
@@ -15,7 +16,6 @@ class API(object):
                 user_class=User, status_class=Status):
     self._Status = status_class
     self._User = user_class
-    self.username = username
     self.host = host
     if secure:
       self._schema = 'https'
@@ -23,26 +23,21 @@ class API(object):
       self._schema = 'http'
 
     # Setup headers
-    self._headers = {
-      'User-Agent': user_agent
-    }
-
-    self._opener = self._build_opener(username, password)
+    self._headers = {}
+    self._headers['User-Agent'] = user_agent
+    if username and password:
+      self._auth = True
+      self._headers['Authorization'] = \
+          'Basic ' + base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password))[:-1]
+    else:
+      self._auth = False
 
   def public_timeline(self):
     return parse_list(self._Status, self._fetch('statuses/public_timeline.json'))
 
   @require_auth
   def friends_timeline(self, since_id=None, max_id=None, count=None, page=None):
-    raise NotImplementedError
-
-  def _build_opener(self, username, password):
-    if username and password:
-      bauth = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
-      bauth.add_password(None, self.host, username, password)
-      return urllib2.build_opener(bauth)
-    else:
-      return urllib2.build_opener()
+    return self._fetch('statuses/friends_timeline.json')
 
   def _fetch(self, url, parameters=None, post_data=None):
     # Build the url
@@ -61,6 +56,6 @@ class API(object):
 
     # Send request
     try:
-      return self._opener.open(req).read()
+      return urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
     except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
       raise TweepError(parse_error(e.read()))
diff --git a/misc.py b/misc.py
index 3d25d68..0a43223 100644
--- a/misc.py
+++ b/misc.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Only allow method to be called with authentication.
 """
 def require_auth(func):
   def wrapper(instance, *args, **kargs):
-    if instance.username and instance.password:
+    if instance._auth:
       func(instance, *args, **kargs)
     else:
       print 'require auth'
-- 
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