{"id":513,"date":"2020-05-13T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz.\/~blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2022-03-08T19:11:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T19:11:56","slug":"cgi-basic-http-authorization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/2020\/05\/cgi-basic-http-authorization","title":{"rendered":"CGI \"Basic\" HTTP Authorization, in a nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><code class=\"language-python\" data-line=\"\">#!\/usr\/bin\/env python3\nimport os, base64\nauth_header = os.environ [&#039;HTTP_AUTHORIZATION&#039;]\nauth_basic = auth_header.split(&#039;Basic &#039;, 1)[1]\nu, p = base64.b64decode(basic_auth).split(&#039;:&#039;, 1)\nu = u.decode()\nprint(u, p)<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Caveats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it might work<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc7617#section-2\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>it might not<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc3875#section-9.2\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply split on \"Basic \", base64decode, split on \":\",  and decode the username.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[67,45,44],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writeups","tag-authentication","tag-cgi","tag-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}