http.client.HTTPSConnection and user authentication?

[geekgeek]

We have a self-signed site I can use curl to retrieve the data using the REST API:

curl https://user:[email protected]/rest/api/something

But I don't know how to do the same using http.client.HTTPSConnection(). I did some google search but didn't see a good way.

import http.client
import ssl
import urllib.parse

context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_REQUIRED
context.load_verify_locations('mywonca.crt')
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('username:[email protected]', 443, context=context)
conn.request("GET","/rest/api/something")
r1 = conn.getresponse()

It complains the socket gaierror. I know I probably should not put the username:passws in the host part, but I don't know where I can set it.