Re: Extracting the username:password from the host

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Hi Christophe,

On 09/12/2016 03:35 PM, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> I've encountered a service that does postbacks as part of its API.
> The only authentication mechanism is putting the username and
> password in the POST URL in the form:
>
> https://user:pass@example.com/api/endpoint
>
> Is there a portable way of extracting that information from the
> request object?

Yes, it should be in `request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION']`; see
https://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/243/ for an example.

The user:pass@host URL syntax is just a way of expressing credentials
for HTTP Basic Authentication; the values should end up in the
Authorization header.

Carl

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