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signal handling oddity

Justin Johnson justinjohnson at fastmail.fm
Mon Jun 9 11:17:05 EDT 2003 
Do you know if twisted supports basic auth?  I had to add code on both
server and client to properly handle basic auth.

On 9 Jun 2003 15:00:13 -0000, "Moshe Zadka" <m at moshez.org> said:
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2003, "Justin Johnson" <justinjohnson at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I was using twisted before for this server and it did handle
> > control-c correctly.  I was having problems getting authentication to
> > work though, so I ended up moving to SimpleXMLRPCServer and adding some
> > other code to get basic authentication to work.  I'm just not familiar
> > enough with twisted to know what to subclass/override, etc... to get
> > simple user/password authentication to work.
> 
> Well, probably in the render() method of your resource, you do
> the checking of request.headers (there's no problem doing it
> manually), and if they're ok you call the parent's render()
> and otherwise you return a 401.
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