IP Authorisation Decorator

from decorator import decorator
from django.http import HttpResponse

#Simple decorator definition to authorize particular IPs in a view function

AUTHORIZED_IPS = ['192.168.101.100']

@decorator
def ip_authorization(func,*args,**kwargs):
    request = args[0]
    request_ip = request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']
    if request_ip in AUTHORIZED_IPS:
        return func(*args, **kwargs)
    else:
        return HttpResponse(status=401)