https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Can-t-connect-to-Livy-through-Kerberos/m-p/226070#M187931 <P>HI <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/19219/saulius1122.html" nodeid="19219">@Javert Kirilov</A>,</P><P>I was facing this issue when trying accessing livy with Python scripts. Please try something like this , if curl is blocking you.</P><P>You may need to install python's requests package.</P><PRE>import json, pprint, requests, textwrap from requests_kerberos import HTTPKerberosAuth host='http://LIVY_HOST:LIVY_PORT' data = {'kind': 'spark'} headers = {'Requested-By': 'MY_USER_ID','Content-Type': 'application/json'} auth=HTTPKerberosAuth() r0 = requests.post(host + '/sessions', data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers,auth=auth) r0.json() </PRE><P>Regards,</P><P>SS</P> Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:25:47 GMT smartninja723 2017-06-27T17:25:47Z