Re: Authentication backend question

2008-05-12 Thread alex finn
Ramiro, thanks for the link, that's really what I need. I will create a middleware for my authentication needs. To be more specific on what I need: we have a huge infrastructure with many different web-based systems running on different servers and created with different technologies/platforms. B

Re: Authentication backend question

2008-05-12 Thread Ramiro Morales
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:48 AM, finnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to create a custom authentication backend that will > authenticate user based on the HTTP headers for the request. But in > django manual I don't see any way to obtain HttpRequest instance in > the authenti

Authentication backend question

2008-05-12 Thread finnam
Hi, I need to create a custom authentication backend that will authenticate user based on the HTTP headers for the request. But in django manual I don't see any way to obtain HttpRequest instance in the authenticate() method. For example, if I receive a request with http header USER_NAME equal to