Re: Using django login functionality in a non django app

The Qt app talks to the server with web requests routed to python code
by falcon. It currently has no authentication/authorization of any
kind. It's not a web app, you can't just navigate to any page, you can
only get to parts of the app the code lets you get to.

The way I envision it (if possible) is that I would have a decorator
just like @login_required, and if that is called and the user is not
logged in, it would invoke the django login page - just like it works
in django. I think I can do most of this, the part I am unclear on is
how I get control from the django login page back to the Qt app.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Gergely Polonkai <gergely@polonkai.eu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this all depends on how this Qt app communicates with the other end (server
> side). Does it offer *any* kind of authentication/authorization? If so, look
> for ways to integrate it with Django. If not, you are screwed anyway (from
> security point of view), because even if your app pops up a login screen,
> there can (and will) be ways to get around it.
>
> Best,
> Gergely
>
> On Apr 25, 2016 22:37, "Larry Martell" <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We have an existing django app with login, change password, and forgot
>> password functionality.
>>
>> Then we have this other app built with the falcon framework. The
>> client side of that is C++/Qt. That app has no login functionality -
>> you bring it up and you're in. We would like to somehow use the login
>> functionality of the django app in the falcon app. Is that even
>> possible? I was thinking that in the Qt app I could bring up the
>> django login page by invoking the URL for that app. But once they log
>> in, how could I get control back to the Qt app and not have it proceed
>> to the django app?
>>
>> Does this even make any sense? Has anyone ever done anything like this?

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