Hello,
this working for me on SPa504. Python script
#!/usr/bin.env python26
import cgi
import httplib
import base64
auth = base64.encodestring("admin:1000")
headers = {"Content-type": "application/xml", "Authorization": "Basic " + auth }
xml= """XML=http://10.76.17.2:83/webapp/cisco_dir.py"/> """
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("10.76.17.162:80")
conn.request("POST","POST /CGI/Execute", xml, headers)
conn.close