Fixed in the book.

Anthony

On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 6:45:35 PM UTC-4, Luca wrote:
>
> In http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/9 it is stated that 
> auth.login_bare returns None if the username/password pair is invalid. 
> auth.login_bare actually returns False, not None. 
> I guess most people do:
>
> user = auth.login_bare(u, p)
> if not user:
>     raise HTTP(403, "Authorization Failed.")
>
> but if one does (as I did), 
>
> if user is None:
>
> then the difference is noticeable.  I am posting this so that the error is 
> documented. 
> Luca
>

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