url = "http://c2logapi.appspot.com/api/1/currentseason/dates"
h = httplib2.Http()
authorizationHeader = "Basic %%s"%%base64.b64encode("%%s:%%s"%%("username", "password"))
resp, content = h.request( url, "GET", headers={ "Authorization":authorizationHeader, "X-API-KEY":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" } )
assert resp["status"]=="200"
dates = json.loads(content)
startDate = datetime.datetime.strptime( dates["start"], "%Y-%m-%d 00:00:00")
endDate = datetime.datetime.strptime(dates["end"], "%Y-%m-%d 00:00:00")