Module httxauth

Given a username and a password return an HTTP Basic Authentication challenge.

The authchallenge parameter is just for harmony with authdigest and for potentially defining a plug-in interface for other authentications

Parameters:

• username (str) - The username to reply to the challenge
• password (str) - The password to reply to the challenge

Returns: tuple (str, str|None)

A tuple containing a base64 encoded challenge and a string with a cache-able challenge for future responses The second value can be None

Given a username, password, a list of challenge fields, a request a sequence number (nonce_count) return a Diget Auth challenge answer

If username is None, then challenge will contain a username key with the username and the password parameter will be the cached value of the HA1 (see the function below) to be used

Parameters:

• username (str|None) - The username to reply to the challenge or None to indicate that the password contains a HA1 cache
• password (str) - The password to reply to the challenge or a HA1 cache
• challenge (dict) - Dictionary with the parameters in the challenge
• request (HttxRequest) - The request that has generated the auth challenge
• nonce_count (int) - Sequence value if this not the first time such a request has been seen. Used by Digest auth to prevent replay attacks

Returns: tuple (str|None, str|None)

A tuple containing a digest answer and a string with a cache-able challenge for future responses Both values can be None if a specific non-supported variant of the Digest Auth is used