Python 3 support

[longears]

I've only tried this code on Python 2.6.1.

Do the dependencies support Python 3?

• requests: yes!
• macauthlib: not sure

[mart-e]

I had a look and, no, the macauthlib is not compatible python 3. It fails almost every unittest when used with python 3. At least it's dependency WebOb is compatible python 3 so it shouldn't be impossible to port macauthlib.

Edit: actually it may not be a problem for a long time anymore :) mozilla-services/macauthlib#4

[longears]

Great!

Or if we decide to move away from macauthlib there was an almost-working attempt at MAC Authentication in an old version of our own code:
https://github.com/longears/python-tent-client/blob/e6a2c32b7c0d81e8b6cd9fe1361578227f189d8e/tentapp.py#L33-71
The server never accepted it, though. I think the hostname might be thing that was wrong about it.

[johankj]

I just implemented authentication in PHP. If you don't mind, I could take a look at it. Then we can get rid of macauthlib and requests containing url-escaped chars should work.

[longears]

Sure! _authHook would need to be updated to pull the hostname out of the request object and then sign it using the old MAC auth code.

[johankj]

I've got it working now, but got some git-issues. I'll fix them later tomorrow.