python-basicauth

A dead simple HTTP basic auth encoder and decoder. Why? Because HTTP should be drop dead easy. That's why.

Install

To install python-basicauth, simply run pip install basicauth and you'll get the latest version installed automatically.

Usage

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

NOTE: The HTTP Basic Authentication spec doesn NOT allow you to include any colon characters (:) in the username field. Colons are allowed in the password field -- but that's it.

Tests

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
.............
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 13 tests in 0.166s

OK