XMLRPC Authentication

[Justin Johnson]

Ahhh,  okay....

So I would put code the do_POST to basically read the MD5 hashed
userid:password, decrypt it, and verify that it is a valid user id and
password?

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 14:00:15 -0700 (PDT), dave at pythonapocrypha.com said:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Justin Johnson wrote:
> 
> > How do you specify the login id and password required on the server side?
> >  The code I'm using is similar to the following.  I'm obviously missing
> > something here... :-(  Thanks for your help.
> >
> > # Server code
> >
> > import SimpleXMLRPCServer
> > from ccservice import CCService # A class providing methods for remote
> > use
> >
> > server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(("somehost", 8000))
> > server.register_instance(CCService())
> > server.serve_forever()
> 
> Sorry for not more of a detailed answer, but subclass
> SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler and override the do_POST method sorta like
> this psuedo-code
> 
> def do_POST(self):
>   Look at self.headers['authorization']
>   if missing or wrong:
>     self.send_response(401)
>     self.end_headers()
>     return
>   # Otherwise call original
>   return SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler.do_POST(self)
> 
> (where "missing or wrong" = do the inverse of what the client side does
> to
> create the Authorization header)
> 
> -Dave
> 
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