drf-signed-auth 0.1.1

DRF Signed Auth
===============

A stateless authentication backend intended to temporarily expose
protected resources.

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Why?
----

The motivation for this package comes from a frequent project
requirement to directly download served by the API in formats like CSV
or Excel within the context of a single-page-application.

Within this context, authentication cannot be achieved using HTTP
Headers, as the resource is accessed directly through a URL via an
``<a>`` tag. Therefore, a temporary signature passed in the query string
must be used to authenticate the request.

This package uses Django's cryptographic signing to produce a
short-lived signature. It provides a view used to produce the signature
and a DRF authentication backend.

Is this secure?
---------------

Use this backend with caution and sparingly. Anyone with a copy of the
signed URL will be able to access a protected resource, so keep the
expiry time short (see settings), and ensure that the Django
``SECRET_KEY`` setting is kept private.

Requirements
------------

- Python 2.7 / 3.6
- Django 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11
- Django REST Framework 3.6, 3.7

Installation
------------

``pip install drf-signed-auth``

Quick start
-----------

Register the SignUrlView in ``urls.py``

.. code:: python

# urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url
from drf_signed_auth.views import SignUrlView


urlpatterns = [
...
url(r'^sign-url/$', SignUrlView.as_view(), name='sign-url'),
...
]

Use the authentication backend on the view you wish to expose.

.. code:: python

# views.py
from drf_signed_auth.authentication import SignedURLAuthentication
from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated
from rest_framework.views import APIView


class MyCSVView(APIView):
...
authentication_classes = [SignedURLAuthentication]
permission_classes = [IsAuthenticated]
...

Usage
-----

Obtain the signature by making a POST request to the Sign URL endpoint,
and provide the ``url`` of the endpoint you wish to access. This can be
a relative or absolute path.

Example
~~~~~~~

::

# Request
POST /sign-url HTTP/1.1
HOST your.api.host
Content-Type: application/json

{"url": "/path"}


# Response
http://your.api.host/path?sig=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The returned URL will be valid for the time specified by the
``SIGNED_URL_TTL``.

Settings
--------

The following settings may be configured in your project's
``settings.py``

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