def status(self):
        """Retrieve some configuration params.
        Note: info are returned even without password"""

        resp = requests.get("http://{0}/get_status.cgi".format(self.address))
        data = resp.text.replace(";", "")
        data = data.replace("var", "")
        data_s = data.split("\n")
        # Last is an empty line 
        data_s.pop()
        data_array = [s.split("=") for s in data_s]
        return dict(data_array)