PiFace - Garden_Irrigation REST API Call

    import httplib
    import base64
    import string
    import urllib

    host = "api.supertweet.net"
    url = "/1.1/statuses/update.json"
    username = 'Your_Twitter_Account'
    password = 'SuperTweet_Password'
    message = 'Message Goes Here'

    # base64 encode the username and password
    auth = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password)).replace('\n', '')

    body = urllib.urlencode({'status': message})

    webservice = httplib.HTTP(host)
    # write your headers
    webservice.putrequest("POST", url)
    webservice.putheader("Host", host)
    webservice.putheader("User-Agent", "Python http auth")
    webservice.putheader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
    webservice.putheader("Content-length", "%d" % len(body))
    # write the Authorization header like: 'Basic base64encode(username + ':' + password)
    webservice.putheader("Authorization", "Basic %s" % auth)

    webservice.endheaders()
    webservice.send(body)
    # get the response
    statuscode, statusmessage, header = webservice.getreply()
    print "Response: ", statuscode, statusmessage
    print "Headers: ", header
    res = webservice.getfile().read()
    print 'Content: ', res