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Diffstat (limited to 'paste/auth/basic.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | paste/auth/basic.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/paste/auth/basic.py b/paste/auth/basic.py index b3e8f36..a255c59 100644 --- a/paste/auth/basic.py +++ b/paste/auth/basic.py @@ -5,14 +5,14 @@ """ Basic HTTP/1.0 Authentication -This module implements ``Basic`` authentication as described in HTTP/1.0 -specification [1]_ . Do not use this module unless you need to work -with very out-dated clients, instead use ``digest`` authentication. -Basically, you just put this module before your application, and it -takes care of requesting and handling authentication requests. +This module implements ``Basic`` authentication as described in +HTTP/1.0 specification [1]_ . Do not use this module unless you +are using SSL or need to work with very out-dated clients, instead +use ``digest`` authentication. >>> from paste.wsgilib import dump_environ >>> from paste.util.httpserver import serve +>>> from paste.auth.basic import AuthBasicHandler >>> realm = 'Test Realm' >>> def authfunc(username, password): ... return username == password @@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ middleware = AuthBasicHandler __all__ = ['AuthBasicHandler'] - if "__main__" == __name__: import doctest doctest.testmod(optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS) |