[Bug] Authentication issues with asf_search.ASFSession.auth_with_creds()

[abradley60]

Describe the bug
Over the last few days, authentication using the ASFSession.auth_with_creds() function does not seem to be working as it previously has been for us. i.e.

import asf_search as asf

session = asf.ASFSession()
session.auth_with_creds(earthdata_uid,earthdata_pswd) # error happens here

scene = 'S1A_IW_SLC__1SSH_20141231T080250_20141231T080317_003960_004C43_99E1'

asf_results = asf.granule_search([scene], asf.ASFSearchOptions(processingLevel='SLC'))
asf_results[0].download(path='data', session=session)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ASFAuthenticationError                    Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[9], [line 2](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=9&line=2)
      1 session = asf.ASFSession()
----> [2](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=9&line=2) session.auth_with_creds(earthdata_uid,earthdata_pswd) # error happens here
      4 scene = 'S1A_IW_SLC__1SSH_20141231T080250_20141231T080317_003960_004C43_99E1'
      6 asf_results = asf.granule_search([scene], asf.ASFSearchOptions(processingLevel='SLC'))

File ~/mambaforge/envs/sar-pipeline/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asf_search/ASFSession.py:136, in ASFSession.auth_with_creds(self, username, password)
    132 self.auth = HTTPBasicAuth(username, password)
    135 # need this to set the asf-urs cookie for certain dataset downloads to work
--> [136](https://vscode-remote+ssh-002dremote-002balex-002ddev-002d3.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net/home/ec2-user/sar-pipeline/~/mambaforge/envs/sar-pipeline/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asf_search/ASFSession.py:136) self._legacy_creds_auth()
    138 login_url = f'https://{self.edl_host}/api/users/find_or_create_token'
    139 ASF_LOGGER.info(f'Attempting to get account EDL Bearer token via "{login_url}"')

File ~/mambaforge/envs/sar-pipeline/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asf_search/ASFSession.py:191, in ASFSession._legacy_creds_auth(self)
    188 self.get(login_url)
    190 if not self._check_auth_cookies(self.cookies.get_dict()):
--> [191](https://vscode-remote+ssh-002dremote-002balex-002ddev-002d3.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net/home/ec2-user/sar-pipeline/~/mambaforge/envs/sar-pipeline/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asf_search/ASFSession.py:191)     raise ASFAuthenticationError('Username or password is incorrect')
    193 ASF_LOGGER.info('Basic asf auth cookies set sucessfully')
    195 token = self.cookies.get_dict().get('urs-access-token')

ASFAuthenticationError: Username or password is incorrect

These are valid credentials that I have tested through the ASF Vertex portal. We have also tested with other sets of credentials.

It appears a partial solution is to place the credentials in a ~/.netrc file and let the download function read them. Or similarly create a temporary file and set the NETRC envrionment variable. For example, the following scene will download correctly after creating the temp .netrc file with the same credentials that failed above:

import asf_search as asf
import tempfile
import os

with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w", delete=False) as f:
    f.write(
        f"""machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov
    login {earthdata_uid}
    password {earthdata_pswd}
    """
    )
    netrc_path = f.name

print(f"Temporary .netrc created at {netrc_path}")

# Set file permissions to 600 (required)
os.chmod(netrc_path, 0o600)

# tell requests/netrc-aware tools to use this file
os.environ["NETRC"] = netrc_path

scene = 'S1A_IW_SLC__1SSH_20141231T080250_20141231T080317_003960_004C43_99E1'

asf_results = asf.granule_search([scene], asf.ASFSearchOptions(processingLevel='SLC'))
asf_results[0].download(path='.')

To Reproduce

As above

Expected behavior

Authentication through the session with earthdata username and password is valid. I'm guessing it's related to this update? https://github.com/asfadmin/Discovery-asf_search/releases/tag/v10.0.5

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

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Additional context
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[asjohnston-asf]

While I'm not familiar with the underlying cause, this issue appeared sometime between Sep 26 and Oct 1. It's corrected in asf_search v10.0.5.

[vincentschut]

While I'm not familiar with the underlying cause, this issue appeared sometime between Sep 26 and Oct 1. It's corrected in asf_search v10.0.5.

I don't think so, we hit the same issue even with 10.0.5 or later. For the time being we reverted to our own download old code which still seems to work.