djangosnippets: Snippets by cme

Simple FastCGI authorizer view

This is a basic view for a FastCGI authorizer against the Django auth. The idea is to return either a blank response with REMOTE_USER set on success, a forbidden response for failure, or a redirect to a login page when no user is logged in. I use this view for a Trac instance running on the same (lighttpd) server as Django. lighttpd is set up to use Django as a FastCGI authorizer (using snippet 1149) for the Trac URLs instead of using basic/digest HTTP authentication, so Trac has the same users as Django.

authenticate
fcgi
fastcgi

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

Run Django as a FastCGI authorizer

I use this as the FastCGI script for authorizers with lighttpd (though I guess it should work with little change on any other webserver supporting FastCGI). I point it to the same Django project/settings as the normal responder script. As I use it to gate access to pages not served by Django, I can include those non-Django URLs in the main urls.py, connected to special authorizer view functions (in another snippet). The two key parts of the script, compared to the equivalent one for Django in the normal FastCGI Responder role, are: 1. Pass the FCGI_AUTHORIZER as the role to WSGIServer 2. Generate a PATH_INFO variable from the REQUEST_URI (FastCGI authorizers aren't given PATH_INFO, but Django needs that to match against the URLconf.)

authenticate
fcgi
fastcgi

Sun 11 Jul 2010 Read More

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