http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/clients/top/2010-05-20T23:49:49-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2010-05-20T23:49:49-07:00Berendhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173891/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577235-gae-user-session-with-http-basic-authentication/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577235 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173891/">Berend</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/appengine/">appengine</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/appspot/">appspot</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/authentication/">authentication</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/clients/">clients</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/gae/">gae</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/google/">google</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sessions/">sessions</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/wsgi/">wsgi</a>). Revision 6. </p> <p>HTTP Basic is an unsecure but easy to implement authentication protocol. I think its good enough for a simple client in front of an SSL capable server. Google App-Engine supports SSL, and here is a recipe to set up the user-session using HTTP Basic. </p> <p>gauth has the code from my not-really-a-recipe listing at: <a href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577217-routines-for-programmatically-authenticating-with-" rel="nofollow">http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577217-routines-for-programmatically-authenticating-with-</a></p>