I am working on a sample code given in the python documentation, the code is:
from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server, demo_app
httpd = make_server('', 8000, demo_app)
print "Serving HTTP on port 8000..."
# Respond to requests until process is killed
httpd.serve_forever()
# Alternative: serve one request, then exit
httpd.handle_request()
I can access this through the localhost on port 8000, but now if I want to pass username/password with the "localhost:8000 username, password" how do I do this. I have figured out how I would get to know if the authentication was unsuccessful but not how to actually receive the username/password for checking..
Any hints, and tips.....
Cheers,
If you pass username/password in the query string like http://localhost:8000?username=x&password=y, you can retrieve them in your WSGI handler function from the environ dict: environ['QUERY_STRING']. You can use urlparse.parse_qs from the standard library to parse it. If this is code that's going into production, I second Joran, you should use at least HTTP Basic Authentication and some authentication middleware like barrel.