Basic Authentication

[mbelletti]

It seems that the feature described here in the book doesn't work.

I tried both methods

auth.settings.allow_basic_login = True

and

auth.basic()

without results.

I tried on the standalone web2py rocket on osx 10.10.3 and on nginx + uwsgi on debian wheezy.

[mbelletti]

I don't know if It is a client problem.

wget doen't work, curl it does.

[michele-comitini]

It is a documentation problem I suppose, since the basic auth is without challenge by default (not the standard by HTTP/1.1).

Do following tests:

1. use --auth-no-challenge invoking wget
2. try to enable by setting basic_auth_realm=True.

in gluon/tools.py:

   def basic(self, basic_auth_realm=False):
        """
        Performs basic login.

       Args:
        basic_auth_realm: optional basic http authentication realm. Can take
            str or unicode or function or callable or boolean.

       reads current.request.env.http_authorization
       and returns basic_allowed,basic_accepted,user.

       if basic_auth_realm is defined is a callable it's return value
       is used to set the basic authentication realm, if it's a string
       its content is used instead.  Otherwise basic authentication realm
       is set to the application name.
       If basic_auth_realm is None or False (the default) the behavior
       is to skip sending any challenge.

       """

[mbelletti]

wget with:
--auth-no-challenge

do the trick!

We should update the docs.
Thank you