djblets.webapi.auth.backends.basic¶

An authentication backend for HTTP Basic Auth.

class WebAPIBasicAuthBackend¶

Bases: WebAPIAuthBackend

Handles HTTP Basic Authentication for the web API.

www_auth_scheme: Optional[str] = 'Basic realm="Web API"'¶

The auth scheme used in the WWW-Authenticate header.

Type:

str

get_credentials(request: HttpRequest) → Optional[Union[Tuple[bool, Optional[str], Optional[Dict[str, str]]], Dict[str, Any]]]¶

Return credentials provided in the request.

This returns a dictionary of all credentials necessary for this auth backend.

If an Authorization header is provided, the result will be the parsed username and password.

Parameters:

request (django.http.HttpRequest) – The HTTP request from the client.

Returns:

A dictionary of credential information containing:

Keys:

• password (str) – The password from the authentication request.

• username (str) – The username from the authentication request.

This will be None if Authorization is not passed or could not be parsed as a HTTP Basic Auth header.

Return type:

dict