From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:53:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch #727483: Add AUTH_TYPE and REMOTE_USER.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a3~70
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a28b3e6dfb399a6107b717d78bc81ef6be80f123;p=python

Patch #727483: Add AUTH_TYPE and REMOTE_USER.
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diff --git a/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py b/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py
index f7b772268d..47a0e2c37a 100644
--- a/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py
+++ b/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py
@@ -153,8 +153,21 @@ class CGIHTTPRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
         if host != self.client_address[0]:
             env['REMOTE_HOST'] = host
         env['REMOTE_ADDR'] = self.client_address[0]
-        # XXX AUTH_TYPE
-        # XXX REMOTE_USER
+        authorization = self.headers.getheader("authorization")
+        if authorization:
+            authorization = authorization.split()
+            if len(authorization) == 2:
+                import base64, binascii
+                env['AUTH_TYPE'] = authorization[0]
+                if authorization[0].lower() == "basic":
+                    try:
+                        authorization = base64.decodestring(authorization[1])
+                    except binascii.Error:
+                        pass
+                    else:
+                        authorization = authorization.split(':')
+                        if len(authorization) == 2:
+                            env['REMOTE_USER'] = authorization[0]
         # XXX REMOTE_IDENT
         if self.headers.typeheader is None:
             env['CONTENT_TYPE'] = self.headers.type