Using Basic HTTP access authentication in Django testing framework

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Humphrey picture Humphrey · Mar 31, 2011 · Viewed 19k times · Source

For some of my Django views I've created a decorator that performs Basic HTTP access authentication. However, while writing test cases in Django, it took me a while to work out how to authenticate to the view. Here's how I did it. I hope somebody finds this useful.

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Humphrey picture Humphrey · Mar 31, 2011

Here's how I did it:

from django.test import Client
import base64
auth_headers = {
    'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION': 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode('username:password'),
}
c = Client()
response = c.get('/my-protected-url/', **auth_headers)

Note: You will also need to create a user.

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