Hi, I have had a lot of problems to set up an API REST with basic auth, finally I have used the next code, I left it here for anyone that may need it:
from gluon.serializers import json auth.settings.allow_basic_login = True @request.restful() def api(): response.view = 'generic.json' response.headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = '*' response.headers['Access-Control-Max-Age'] = 86400 response.headers['Access-Control-Allow-Headers'] = '*' response.headers['Access-Control-Allow-Methods'] = '*' response.headers['Access-Control-Allow-Credentials'] = 'true' @auth.requires_login() def GET(id): return json(get_post_if_user_belongs_to_blog(id, auth)) @auth.requires_login() def PUT(id, **fields): return get_post_if_user_belongs_to_blog(id, auth).update_record(**fields) @auth.requires_login() def POST(*args, **fields): return db.posts.validate_and_insert(blog_id=auth.user.blog_id, user_id=auth.user.id, **fields) @auth.requires_login() def DELETE(id): get_post_if_user_belongs_to_blog(id, auth).delete_record() return dict(action="deleted", status="ok", id=id) def OPTIONS(args, **vars): print 'doing post options' headers = {"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": '*', 'Access-Control-Max-Age': 86400, 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers': '*', 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods': '*', 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials': 'true'} raise HTTP(200, **headers) return locals() def get_post_if_user_belongs_to_blog(id, auth): my_post = db.posts[id] if my_post.blog_id != auth.user.blog_id: return 'not authorized' return my_post Forget about most part of the code and pay attention to annotations. Maybe I am not 100% right in all the approach, but this is what I have needed: - OPTIONS need to be without authentication, so I have removed @auth.requires_login from main methond (def api()) and I have annotated the GET,PUT,POST and DELETE methods. - I have needed to set up headers on OPTIONS too, for avoiding CORS issues I hope that this can helps to anybody. I plan to move basic auth to JWT or another auth method. Thanks! -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.