How to access Apache Basic Authentication user in Flask

Question

I\'m developing a web page using Flask, on an Apache server where the Server is enforcing basic authentication. That is, a user accessing a page on the server is presented with

Answer 1

You can find authentication information in Flask from the request object.

from flask import request

def my_view():
    auth = request.authentication
    username = auth.username
    password = auth.password
    ...

Note however that if you're using apache mod_wsgi, you'll need to turn on the WSGIPassAuthorization directive in your virtualhost config. Otherwise apache will consume the authentication header and won't pass it to the WSGI layers.

    ...

    WSGIPassAuthorization On

    ...

more info here and here.