Authenticating to PMS

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It SHA'd work, but doesn't....
Ok,

Attempting to get a python script to authticate to PMS for remote libraries. I know that user/pass are passed to PMS as HTTP Headers:

X-Plex-User is lower(username)
X-Plex-Pass is SHA1(lower(username) + SHA1(password))

However I still keep getting 401'd....

I've dumped the network packets and can see that I'm sending the right X-Plex-Pass key (checked against the iOS app) and that I should get back a response.

The only thing I can see is that urllib2 is sending the header as X-plex-pass (i.e. lower case P) rather than X-Plex-Pass. The RFC says that HTTP headers are case insensitive, but i'm wondering. I was going to test with something else (i've been directed towards httplib) - but i'm at home now and can test an external connect.

Any one got any ideas?
Is PMS looking for the correct capitalisation?
Is there any extra debugging I can turn on in PMS?

EDIT: added code for those interested

        txheaders = {}<br />
          <br />
              import sha<br />
            msg=sha.new(g_password.lower())<br />
            print msg.hexdigest()<br />
            msg2=sha.new(g_username.lower()+msg.hexdigest()).hexdigest()<br />
            <br />
            txheaders['X-Plex-User']=str(g_username.lower())<br />
            txheaders['X-Plex-Pass']=str(msg2)<br />
        <br />
        print "sending header " + str(txheaders)<br />
        <br />
        req = urllib2.Request(url, txdata, txheaders)<br />
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Bottoms - I think they are. I’ve switched to python’ing some transcoding for a bit and the X-Plex in a URL is fine, but as a header they aren’t detected.

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Bit of a one man show this thread!!



Aaaaanyway - it’s been confirmed to me that the PMS headers are case-sensitive. Therefore if you are using python urllib it won’t work. Luckily httplib does preserve case, so I’m using that instead.