Question related to HTTP requests and HTTP-Digest

LS-KS · wrote on 25 Jun 2024, 21:33

I have a Qt-Application written in Pyside6 that needs to communicate to an ABB IRC5 controller via http API.
I have a manual that delivers an example script that uses the requests module to establish a connection using
requests.session and HttpDigestAuth to login and then uses a websocket for subscriptions.

I would like to do similar but with Qt classes.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to get all information I need when reading this page link.
From my understanding I need to instantiate QNetworkAccessManager that handles my request and cookies.
To use the Digest-MD5 method I instantiate QAuthenticator. But here comes the first problem:

How to use the setOption() method correctly? What should be the second argument? It's clear for the C++ class, but not for the PySide6 class.

How to tell QNetWorkAccessManager instance to use QAutenticator instance to perform a post-request?

I made a minimal working example with two QWebsocket at localhost and played around with QNetworkRequests which worked fine. But using the actual URL of the controller i don't get any response. If I use cURL with the same username and password together with the -digest flag it works as expected.

Hope someone sees my error and has some good hints :-)

    def try_abb_connect(self):
        self.authenticate("Default User", "robotics")
        payload = b"lvalue=1"
        url = QUrl("http://168.168.64.61/rw/iosystem/signals/Virtual1/Board1/di1?action = set")
        request = QNetworkRequest(url)
        request.setHeader(QNetworkRequest.KnownHeaders.ContentTypeHeader, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
        resp = self.manager.post(request, payload)
        print("ABB: " + str(resp.error()) + resp.errorString())
        #below is the line from an example using requests module:
        #resp = requests.post("http://localhost/rw/iosystem/signals/Virtual1/Board1 / di1?action = set", auth = HTTPDigestAuth("Default User", "robotics"), data = payload)

    def authenticate(self, username: str, password: str):
        self.authenticator: QAuthenticator = QAuthenticator()
        self.authenticator.setOption("Digest", self.authenticator)
        self.authenticator.setUser(username)
        self.authenticator.setPassword(password)
        # here: how to connect authenticator to network manager?