shopify - Python Requests Invalid URL Label error -

i'm trying access shopify's api uses url format of - https://apikey:password@hostname/admin/resource.xml

e.g.http://7ea7a2ff231f9f7:95c5e8091839609c864@iliketurtles.myshopify.com/admin/orders.xml

doing $curl api_url downloads correct xml when

 import requests  api_url = 'http://7ea7a2ff231f9f7d:95c5e8091839609c864@iliketurtles.myshopify.com/admin/orders.xml'  r = requests.get(api_url) # invalid url label error 

any idea why i'm getting this? curl / opening link directly in browser working fine. because length of url long?

thanks!

the error ('url has invalid label.') bug in requests library: applies idna encoding (for internationalized domain names) on hostname userinfo attached, source:

netloc = netloc.encode('idna').decode('utf-8') 

that might raise 'label empty or long' error long username:password. can try report on requests' issue tracker.

a:b@example.com form deprecated otherwise requests.get('https://a:b@example.com') should equivalent requests.get('https://example.com', auth=('a', 'b')) if characters in username:password [-a-za-z0-9._~!$&'()*+,;=] set.

curl , requests differ there percent-encoded characters in userinfo e.g., https://a:%c3%80@example.com leads curl generating following http header:

authorization: basic ytrdga== 

but requests produces:

authorization: basic ytolqzmloda= 

i.e.:

>>> import base64 >>> base64.b64decode('ytrdga==') 'a:\xc3\x80' >>> print _ a:À >>> base64.b64decode('ytolqzmloda=') 'a:%c3%80'