A plugin to support SAP authentication in Python Requests
Requests is a simple HTTP library for Python. It supports many authentication mechanisms, but also creating a custom one.
In this blog post I will explain how to use custom authentication plugin for SAP portal authentication.
Why would we need it? In cases we want to automate the file management on SAP portal, we may have an automation to check if files are valid or similar.
The SAP portal authentication
The SAP portal authenation consist of few steps. In each step the client must send the hidden data to the post from, which is returned in the HTTP response.
At the end we receive SAMLResponse data, which we can use to create a HTTP session and access our HTTP link.
The code
Usage
The usage of the library is very simple, you just need to pass the SAPAuth instance to the requests HTTP call.
And the authentication is happening behind the scene for you, no need to know any details, just username and password.
Install
The library is hosted on pypi, so you can simply install it via pip.
pip install requests-sap
Sample code
This sample code will login to SAP portal, and fetch information and print the information to stdout.
The output is:
SAP HANA Platform Edt. 2.0 SPS05 rev57 Linux x86_64 is AVAILABLE