Fredrik, You should be able to use http basic authentication on ssl. You can also use x509 auth if you want to use client side certificates (still using web2py auth_* tables). I do not understand what is the exact error on your client. Can you post it?
mic 2013/9/17 Fredrik <fredrik.zetterg...@gmail.com> > Hi Larry, > > thanks for the quick reply. It might have something to do with the > certificate. Me calling it a production server is actually not totally > correct, it's more of a staging server, and therefore the SSL certificate > does not match the domain name. > > Using basic auth was more of a way to find out what is going wrong. Our > goal is to have API authentication based on the auth table in web2py. With > basic auth and Apache/WSGI, aren't we restricted to a password-file and > therefore a separate user/pass set than in web2py? > > > On Monday, September 16, 2013 6:08:14 PM UTC+2, Larry Weinberg wrote: > >> I'm doing exactly that and not running into troubles. >> Could it be something about your SSL certificate? If it's not a well >> trusted certificate sometimes you need to install it on the client side. >> Does it match the domain name you are calling? >> >> I test my server with the following python code and I can use basic >> authentication with restful calls: >> >> import requests >> from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth >> import json >> >> user = 'myn...@my.com' >> passwd = 'mypassword' >> url = >> 'http://mysrver/app/**controller/resfullcall.json<http://mysrver/app/controller/resfullcall.json> >> ' >> r = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(user, passwd)) >> # print r.text >> >> # Decode the JSON response and get the access token >> decodedDict = json.loads(r.text) >> >> >> -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
