Sorry for the late response. I tried putting print statements in this
method, but I don't see anything on the console. Is there an option
while starting web2py to enable this?
On Dec 15, 10:53 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Hmmm... look into gluon/tools.py
>
> def basic(self):
> if not self.settings.allow_basic_login:
> return False
> basic = self.environment.request.env.http_authorization
> if not basic or not basic[:6].lower() == 'basic ':
> return False
> (username, password) = base64.b64decode(basic[6:]).split(':')
> return self.login_bare(username, password)
>
> Can you add some print debug statements as see where it fails?
>
> On Dec 15, 10:23 am, Adi <aditya.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> > Hi,
>
> > I'm trying to set up a function for authenticating users over a service.
>
> > This is my method:
>
> > def authenticate():
>
> > is_loggedin = auth and auth.user
>
> > if not is_loggedin:
>
> > auth.allow_basic_login = True
>
> > is_loggedin = auth.basic()
>
> > return is_loggedin
>
> > This is how I call it: curl -u
> > a%40b.com:testhttp://127.0.0.1:8000/app/default/authenticate
>
> > a...@b.com is the username, test is the password. This is returning False
> > when
> > I expected True. What am I missing?
