A dead simple HTTP basic auth encoder and decoder. Why? Because HTTP should be drop dead easy. That's why.
To install python-basicauth, simply run pip install basicauth and
you'll get the latest version installed automatically.
To generate an encoded basic auth string:
>>> from basicauth import encode
>>> username, password = 'rdegges', 'omghax!!!'
>>> encoded_str = encode(username, password)
>>> print encoded_str
'Basic cmRlZ2dlczpvbWdoYXglMjElMjElMjE='To decode an encoded basic auth string:
>>> from basicauth import decode
>>> encoded_str = 'Basic cmRlZ2dlczpvbWdoYXglMjElMjElMjE=' # From the example above.
>>> username, password = decode(encoded_str)
>>> print (username, password)
('rdegges', 'omghax!!!')We can also decode the hash directly:
>>> from basicauth import decode
>>> encoded_str = 'cmRlZ2dlczpvbWdoYXglMjElMjElMjE=' # From the example above.
>>> username, password = decode(encoded_str)
>>> print (username, password)
('rdegges', 'omghax!!!')And if there are errors:
>>> from basicauth import decode, DecodeError
>>> encoded_str = 'lol omg cmRlZ2dlczpvbWdoYXglMjElMjElMjE=' # Invalid hash.
>>> username, password = decode(encoded_str)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "basicauth/__init__.py", line 49, in decode
raise DecodeError
basicauth.DecodeError
Want to run the tests? No problem:
$ git clone git://github.com/rdegges/python-basicauth.git
$ cd python-basicauth
$ python setup.py develop
...
$ pip install -r requirements.txt # Install test dependencies.
$ nosetests
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Ran 13 tests in 0.166s
OK