django-basic-auth-decorator

Basic auth decorator for Django.

Installation

You can install the package via pip:

pip install django-basic-auth-decorator

Usage

from django_basic_auth_decorator.decorators import basic_auth

# Define your allowed credentials
CREDENTIALS = [
    ("admin", "adminpass"),
    ("user", "userpass"),
]

# Apply the decorator on a view function
@basic_auth(CREDENTIALS)
def my_view(request):
    ...

# Use a different realm for each set of credentials, otherwise browsers
# reuse the cached credentials of one view on the other and prompt again
@basic_auth(OTHER_CREDENTIALS, realm="Internal Docs")
def other_view(request):
    ...

# Browsers forget basic auth credentials when they restart, set cookie_age
# (seconds) to remember a successful login in a signed cookie
@basic_auth(CREDENTIALS, cookie_age=30 * 24 * 60 * 60)
def remembered_view(request):
    ...

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.