Parse an HTTP request Authorization header with Python

Question

I need to take a header like this:

 Authorization: Digest qop=\"chap\",
     realm=\"testrealm@host.com\",
     username=\"Foobear\",
     response=\"6629fae         


        

Answer 1

A little regex:

import re
reg=re.compile('(\w+)[:=] ?"?(\w+)"?')

>>>dict(reg.findall(headers))

{'username': 'Foobear', 'realm': 'testrealm', 'qop': 'chap', 'cnonce': '5ccc069c403ebaf9f0171e9517f40e41', 'response': '6629fae49393a05397450978507c4ef1', 'Authorization': 'Digest'}