Enable Basic Authetication in your django views. Useful when you have a ajax view accessed by a client that is csrf exempt on HTTP POST

basic_auth.py

import base64

from django.contrib.auth import authenticate

'''
 In your views you can call has_basic_auth(request) to check if request headers have a valid Authorization header or not.

  Returns False if header is absent or based on invalid username/password combination.

  Handle the result in your view accordingly
  Based on https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/243/


'''




def has_basic_auth(request): 
    if 'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' in request.META:
        auth = request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'].split()
        if len(auth) == 2:
           
            if auth[0].lower() == "basic":
                uname, passwd = base64.b64decode(auth[1]).split(':')
                user = authenticate(username=uname, password=passwd)
                if user is not None:
                    if user.is_active:
                        return True

    
    return False