Update: Needed to restart web2py (sorry I'm spoilt!)
Ok it works as expected. It seems I need to unescape the "@" symbol in
username before calling basic(). I was using the encoded %40 instead.
On Dec 29, 1:10 pm, Adi <aditya.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the late response. I tried putting print statements in this
> method, but I don't see anything on the console. Is there an option
> while starting web2py to enable this?
>
> On Dec 15, 10:53 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
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> > Hmmm... look into gluon/tools.py
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> > def basic(self):
> > if not self.settings.allow_basic_login:
> > return False
> > basic = self.environment.request.env.http_authorization
> > if not basic or not basic[:6].lower() == 'basic ':
> > return False
> > (username, password) = base64.b64decode(basic[6:]).split(':')
> > return self.login_bare(username, password)
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> > Can you add some print debug statements as see where it fails?
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> > On Dec 15, 10:23 am, Adi <aditya.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Hi,
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> > > I'm trying to set up a function for authenticating users over a service.
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> > > This is my method:
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> > > def authenticate():
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> > > is_loggedin = auth and auth.user
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> > > if not is_loggedin:
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> > > auth.allow_basic_login = True
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> > > is_loggedin = auth.basic()
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> > > return is_loggedin
>
> > > This is how I call it: curl -u
> > > a%40b.com:testhttp://127.0.0.1:8000/app/default/authenticate
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> > > a...@b.com is the username, test is the password. This is returning
> > > False when
> > > I expected True. What am I missing?
