It turns out I needed to add this to the Apache config:
On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 11:23:00 AM UTC+2, Michele Comitini wrote: > > 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.z...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > >> 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+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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.
