Merge pull request #88 from brianjmiller/pr87

Fix broken basic auth with long username/password

Author: brianjmiller

tincan/remote_lrs.py

@@ -76,10 +76,9 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
                 and "password" in kwargs \
                 and kwargs["password"] is not None \
                 and "auth" not in kwargs:
-            # The base64 encode tacks on a \n character to the string which needs to be removed.
-            auth_string = "Basic " + base64.encodestring(unicode(kwargs["username"]) +
-                                                         ":" +
-                                                         unicode(kwargs["password"]))[:-1]
+            auth_string = "Basic " + base64.b64encode(unicode(kwargs["username"]) +
+                                                      ":" +
+                                                      unicode(kwargs["password"]))
 
             kwargs.pop("username")
             kwargs.pop("password")