https-con.py

from httplib import HTTPSConnection
from base64 import b64encode
#This sets up the https connection
c = HTTPSConnection("www.google.com")
#we need to base 64 encode it 
#and then decode it to acsii as python 3 stores it as a byte string
userAndPass = b64encode(b"username:password").decode("ascii")
headers = { 'Authorization' : 'Basic %s' %  userAndPass }
#then connect
c.request('GET', '/', headers=headers)
#get the response back
res = c.getresponse()
# at this point you could check the status etc
# this gets the page text
data = res.read()
print data

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6999565/python-https-get-with-basic-authentication

and,

https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/actions/verifying-bearer-tokens