Interacting with RTC using OSLC, Python, and requests lib

I recently needed to store all comments from a list of all work items from a project I was hosting on jazz.net/hub the predecessor of hub.jazz.net and always wanted to write something similarly to git to interact with jazz (started working on it on github (project link)).

I first tried to emulate the interaction as shown on their github integrator which is overly complicated then I stumbled across a library by Kenneth Reitz for doing http requests.
Using that lib the whole authentication and interactions becomes very easy:

	import requests
	user= 'your jazz username'
	pw = 'your jazz password'
	host = 'https://jazzhost:port/something'#/ROOTSERVICES
	resource_uri = 'https://jazzhost:port/some_uri.json'
	r = requests.get(host + '/authenticate/identidty', headers={'Accept':'application/xml'}, allow_redirects=True, verify=False)
	r = requests.post(host + '/j_security_check', allow_redirects=True, verify=False, data={'j_username':user,'j_password':pw}, cookies=r.cookies)
	r = requests.get( resource_uri, allow_redirects=True, verify=False, cookies=r.cookies)
	r.json# contains the json response as dictionary of lists/diciotnaries

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rtc_request_auth.py

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Have fun.