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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I need to authenticate users using basic HTTP
authentication and the code below works on Mozilla, Opera, that awful KDE
browser ;-) and whatever else I throw at it, EXCEPT MSIE. Most of my potential
users are MS IE addicts so this is a key point in my project. The code below are
ported from a previous project based on BaseHTTPServer. It might be that I
didn't send a end_headers-header before sending the plain-text content. This was
done in the BaseHTTPServer-solution, but I didn't find any such code in
Twisted.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> def render(self,
request):<BR> username =
request.getUser()<BR> password =
request.getPassword()<BR> if not
username or not
password:<BR>
request.setResponseCode(401, 'Authentication
needed')<BR>
request.setHeader('Connection',
'close')<BR>
request.setHeader('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic realm="%s"' %
'default')<BR>
request.setHeader('Content-Length', str(len('401: Authorization
needed.')))<BR>
request.setHeader('Content-Type',
'text/html')<BR>
return '<h1>401 Authentication required</h1>%s' % msg</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> # else process the request in a
normal way<BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How can I use Twisted to authenticate users using
basic HTTP authentication? Are there any example on how to use the cred-module
in Twisted to authenticate users? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any information on this issue would be highly
appreciated. Ideas on how to maintain user-information and implement security
policies in Twisted, especially web-based Twisted-apps are also very
interesting.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thomas Weholt</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>