#!/usr/bin/python import sys import os import httplib f = '/tmp/openvpn_sso_user' with open (f, "r") as myfile: session_key = myfile.read().replace('\n', '') conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("10.8.0.1:8080") conn.request("GET", "/" + session_key) r1 = conn.getresponse() if r1.status == 200: body = r1.read().rstrip() print body elif r1.status == 404: print "Authentication failed" else: print r1.status, r1.reason