# This file is part of CherryPy # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # vim:ts=4:sw=4:expandtab:fileencoding=utf-8 __doc__ = """Module auth_basic.py provides a CherryPy 3.x tool which implements the server-side of HTTP Basic Access Authentication, as described in RFC 2617. Example usage, using the built-in checkpassword_dict function which uses a dict as the credentials store: userpassdict = {'bird' : 'bebop', 'ornette' : 'wayout'} checkpassword = cherrypy.lib.auth_basic.checkpassword_dict(userpassdict) basic_auth = {'tools.auth_basic.on': True, 'tools.auth_basic.realm': 'earth', 'tools.auth_basic.checkpassword': checkpassword, } app_config = { '/' : basic_auth } """ __author__ = 'visteya' __date__ = 'April 2009' import binascii import base64 import cherrypy def checkpassword_dict(user_password_dict): """Returns a checkpassword function which checks credentials against a dictionary of the form: {username : password}. If you want a simple dictionary-based authentication scheme, use checkpassword_dict(my_credentials_dict) as the value for the checkpassword argument to basic_auth(). """ def checkpassword(realm, user, password): p = user_password_dict.get(user) return p and p == password or False return checkpassword def basic_auth(realm, checkpassword, debug=False): """basic_auth is a CherryPy tool which hooks at before_handler to perform HTTP Basic Access Authentication, as specified in RFC 2617. If the request has an 'authorization' header with a 'Basic' scheme, this tool attempts to authenticate the credentials supplied in that header. If the request has no 'authorization' header, or if it does but the scheme is not 'Basic', or if authentication fails, the tool sends a 401 response with a 'WWW-Authenticate' Basic header. Arguments: realm: a string containing the authentication realm. checkpassword: a callable which checks the authentication credentials. Its signature is checkpassword(realm, username, password). where username and password are the values obtained from the request's 'authorization' header. If authentication succeeds, checkpassword returns True, else it returns False. """ if '"' in realm: raise ValueError('Realm cannot contain the " (quote) character.') request = cherrypy.serving.request auth_header = request.headers.get('authorization') if auth_header is not None: try: scheme, params = auth_header.split(' ', 1) if scheme.lower() == 'basic': # since CherryPy claims compability with Python 2.3, we must use # the legacy API of base64 username_password = base64.decodestring(params) username, password = username_password.split(':', 1) if checkpassword(realm, username, password): if debug: cherrypy.log('Auth succeeded', 'TOOLS.AUTH_BASIC') request.login = username return # successful authentication except (ValueError, binascii.Error): # split() error, base64.decodestring() error raise cherrypy.HTTPError(400, 'Bad Request') # Respond with 401 status and a WWW-Authenticate header cherrypy.serving.response.headers['www-authenticate'] = 'Basic realm="%s"' % realm raise cherrypy.HTTPError(401, "You are not authorized to access that resource")