What

This is a decorator for a django view that will request Basic Authentication. This is a copy of https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/243/

Why

There are serveral reasons for this Package:

• I wanted Basic Authentication for just a couple of views. So the RemoteUserAuthBackend was no option. Also I did not want to configure the webserver to do Basic Authentication.
• As you can read in the comments of https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/243/ there are some bugs in it - so I wanted to have them fixed - but also documented that they were fixed and in the end provide a fixed version of it
• Also I just want to install it via pip

How to use

Apache

Add this to your apache config to tell apache to pass the Authorication Headers to your application:

WSGIPassAuthorization On

Django

Function Views

@logged_in_or_basicauth()
def view(request):
    return 'Hello World.'

Class based Views

Django 1.8

class View(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'hello.html'

    @method_decorator(logged_in_or_basicauth())
    def dispatch(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return super(View, self).dispatch(*args, *kwargs)

Django 1.9: method_decorator now works on classes:

@method_decorator(logged_in_or_basicauth(), name='dispatch')
class View(TemplateView):
    template_name = 'hello.html'