libopencore 0.1

library functions for connecting external apps to/from opencore

A small library of functions useful for integration with opencore.

Contents:

libopencore.auth

• get_secret(filename)

  Get a shared secret to be used in cookie parsing & construction.

• generate_cookie_value(username, shared_secret)

  Use this to set a cookie so that opencore will recognize the user as logged in.

• authenticate_from_cookie(cookie_string, shared_secret)

  Returns (username, hash) for the user identified by the cookie. Throws a BadCookie exception if the cookie is malformed, or a NotAuthenticated exception if the cookie is well-formed but not using the correct shared secret.