I'm having a problem sending basic AUTH over urllib2. I took a look at this article, and followed the example. My code:

passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
passman.add_password(None, "api.foursquare.com", username, password)
urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)))

req = urllib2.Request("http://api.foursquare.com/v1/user")    
f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
data = f.read()

I'm seeing the following on the Wire via wireshark:

GET /v1/user HTTP/1.1
Host: api.foursquare.com
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
User-Agent: Python-urllib/2.5 

You can see the Authorization is not sent, vs. when I send a request via curl: curl -u user:password http://api.foursquare.com/v1/user

GET /v1/user HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic =SNIP=
User-Agent: curl/7.19.4 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3
Host: api.foursquare.com
Accept: */*

For some reason my code seems to not send the authentication - anyone see what I'm missing?

thanks

-simon