REST API x.509 authentication

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Requests can do this.
Authentication with an X.509 certificate by specifying the path to the cert and key in your request.

requests.get('https://example.com', cert=('/path/client.cert', '/path/client.key'))

A example how Requests work,using httpbin Request & Response Service.

import requests

custom_header = {'user-agent': 'customUserAgent'}
payload = {'website': 'python-forum.io'}
url = 'http://httpbin.org/get'
response = requests.get(url, headers=custom_header, params=payload)

>>> response.status_code
200
>>> 
>>> response.json()
{'args': {'website': 'python-forum.io'},
 'headers': {'Accept': '*/*',
             'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
             'Host': 'httpbin.org',
             'User-Agent': 'customUserAgent',
             'X-Amzn-Trace-Id': 'Root=1-620aefc7-6a0e69062220969551fe5a6f'},
 'origin': '83.143.86.74',
 'url': 'http://httpbin.org/get?website=python-forum.io'}