It depends. Unless you have custom auth_user table with a username field, your username is the email and that is what you should use in basic auth.
On Dec 30, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Alex Fanjul wrote: > Massimo I think the username is not an email, is just the standard way > of accessing url with basic auth, isn't it? > http:// username : password @ domain : port / uri > > alex > > El 30/12/2009 15:25, mdipierro escribió: >> That probably will not work since it is not what was designed for. >> I am not sure why it did not work thou. >> If the username is the email, did you escape it? >> >> On Dec 30, 1:16 am, David Marko<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I simply tried to call the method with URLcontaining the username/ >>> password. e.g. tttp://username:p...@localhost:8080/.... . Its just >>> internal call so its fine that username/pwd is in URL. I simply >>> tried >>> this in browser, but login form apeared instead. >>> >>> David >>> >>> On Dec 29, 10:25 pm, mdipierro<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The allow basic login allows you to call functions that >>>> @auth.requires_login() by passing the credential using basic auth >>>> for >>>> example call the url using wget and curl. >>>> >>> >>>> How are you using it? >>>> >>> >>>> On Dec 29, 2:59 pm, David Marko<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>> >>>>> How the settings 'auth.settings.allow_basic_login = True' is >>>>> supposed >>>>> to work? I tried to login to protected >>>>> method('[email protected]_login >>>>> ()') via basic auth, but was not succesfull. Is there some >>>>> additional >>>>> setting for protected methods or '[email protected]_login()'' is >>>>> simply >>>>> used for both auth ? Can someone explain please? >>>>> >>> >>>>> David >>>>> >>> >>> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "web2py-users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en >> . >> >> >> >> > > -- > Alejandro Fanjul Fdez. > [email protected] > www.mhproject.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
