request for a owslib.util.UnauthorizedException?

[ReimarBauer]

Hi there,

We have been using the owslib library in our flight planning software MSS for quite some time. To secure access to our data servers, we are utilizing HTTP authentication (http_auth).

Currently, we catch general owslib.util.UnauthorizedException errors and extract the error string from them (e.g., "Error 401"). However, this string is not always consistent.

It would be helpful if there was a more specific exception that we could use for this scenario.

[tomkralidis]

We could delegate to Python requests for 401 and 403 responses which would give the granularity you need:

diff --git a/owslib/util.py b/owslib/util.py
index ab6c762..dadc82c 100644
--- a/owslib/util.py
+++ b/owslib/util.py
@@ -208,10 +208,10 @@ def openURL(url_base, data=None, method='Get', cookies=None, username=None, pass
 
     req = requests.request(method.upper(), url_base, headers=headers, **rkwargs)
 
-    if req.status_code in [400, 401, 403]:
+    if req.status_code == 400:
         raise ServiceException(req.text)
 
-    if req.status_code in [404, 500, 502, 503, 504]:    # add more if needed
+    if req.status_code in [401, 403, 404, 500, 502, 503, 504]:    # add more if needed
         req.raise_for_status()
 
     # check for service exceptions without the http header set

Would that help your use case?

[ReimarBauer]

@tomkralidis yes, thanks!