HTTP code 204 using httplib

Question

I'm writing a python program to access an HTTPS web page using the httplib module, and am having trouble retrieving a message body from the URL. Here is my example code:

username = "user"
password = "pass"
auth = base64.encodestring("%s:%s" % (username, password))
headers = {"Authorization" : "Basic %s" % auth, "User-agent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120716 Firefox/15.0a2"}
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("beta.space-track.org")
conn.request("GET", "/basicspacedata/query/class/tle_latest/NORAD_CAT_ID/37793/ORDINAL/1/orderby/FILE%20desc/limit/1/format/tle", headers=headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print response.status, response.reason
conn.close()

This returns an HTTP status of 204 No Content. Based on my knowledge, the 204 error means the request was understood fine, but no content was sent. What could be the problem? Am I authenticating wrong?

Do you know for sure that the site accepts authentication with headers and not using form post and cookies? — Eugene Mayevski 'Callback, Nov 27 '12 at 16:30
Good catch, turns out it uses cookies. I'm using wget now to try this, and having certificate verification issues - but that's a different story :) — Jon Martin, Nov 27 '12 at 17:24

HTTP code 204 using httplib

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