Django: Basic Auth for one view (avoid middleware)

Question

I need to provide http-basic-auth to one view.

I want to avoid modifying the middleware settings.

Background: This is a view which gets fil

Answer 1

For those that already use django-rest-framework (DRF):

DRF has a BasicAuthentication class which, more-or-less, does what is described in the other answers (see source).

This class can also be used in "normal" Django views.

For example:

from rest_framework.authentication import BasicAuthentication

def my_view(request):
    # use django-rest-framework's basic authentication to get user
    user = None
    user_auth_tuple = BasicAuthentication().authenticate(request)
    if user_auth_tuple is not None:
        user, _ = user_auth_tuple