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Basic auth for Django snippet
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import base64 | |
from django.http import HttpResponse | |
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate | |
from django.conf import settings | |
def view_or_basicauth(view, request, *args, **kwargs): | |
# Check for valid basic auth header | |
if 'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' in request.META: | |
auth = request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'].split() | |
if len(auth) == 2: | |
if auth[0].lower() == "basic": | |
uname, passwd = base64.b64decode(auth[1]).split(':') | |
user = authenticate(username=uname, password=passwd) | |
if user is not None and user.is_active: | |
request.user = user | |
return view(request, *args, **kwargs) | |
# Either they did not provide an authorization header or | |
# something in the authorization attempt failed. Send a 401 | |
# back to them to ask them to authenticate. | |
response = HttpResponse() | |
response.status_code = 401 | |
response['WWW-Authenticate'] = 'Basic realm="%s"' % settings.BASIC_AUTH_REALM | |
return response | |
def basicauth(view_func): | |
def wrapper(request, *args, **kwargs): | |
return view_or_basicauth(view_func, request, *args, **kwargs) | |
return wrapper(tws) |
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