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 encoded string 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 encoded string.
>>> 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 does 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 https://github.com/rdegges/python-basicauth.git
$ cd python-basicauth
$ pip install -e .
...
$ python -m unittest
..............
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Ran 14 tests in 0.103s

OK