xmlrpc username/password failures

[penglish1@gmail.com]

Hi,

I'm trying to get xmlrpc working with usernames and passwords and
having some issues. This is on Linux (WBEL3.0R1).

First of all with python 2.2.3 which comes with WBEL the following
simple code fails (passwords & server names altered to protect the
innocent):

#!/usr/bin/python

import xmlrpclib
from xmlrpclib import *

test =
Server('http://3tier:My&Passw6 @www.server.net/Forecast')

print test.ReturnSimp leInt()

Returns the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./testCondon.py", line 8, in ?
print test.ReturnSimp leInt()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 821, in __call__
return self.__send(sel f.__name, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 975, in __request
verbose=self.__ verbose
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 833, in request
h = self.make_conne ction(host)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 862, in make_connection
return httplib.HTTP(ho st)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 969, in __init__
self._setup(sel f._connection_c lass(host, port, strict))
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 491, in __init__
self._set_hostp ort(host, port)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/httplib.py", line 502, in _set_hostport
raise InvalidURL("non numeric port: '%s'" % host[i+1:])
httplib.Invalid URL: nonnumeric port:
'My&Passw6@sd-portal.prasenti a.net'

Strangely enough, the URL is not considered invalid by Python 2.4
(compiled fresh on WBEL), but I get 401 Unauthorized even though I can
cut/paste the URL into my browser (firefox 1.0) and I'm given
access...so I *know* it is not a typo:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./testCondon.py", line 8, in ?
print test.ReturnSimp leInt()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
return self.__send(sel f.__name, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
verbose=self.__ verbose
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1137, in request
headers
xmlrpclib.Proto colError: <ProtocolErro r for
3tier:My&Passw6 @www.server.net/Forecast: 401 Unauthorized>

The _only_ thing I was able to find in google about this is this one
bug:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?fun...&group_id=5470

which seems to indicate that username:passwo rd@hostname is not
*actually* an RFC valid syntax. However the xmlrpclib documenation
clearly indicates that that is *the* syntax to use:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xmlrpclib.html

What gives? What is the "right" way to do it?

Thanks,
Paul