WSGI Middleware for OAuth authentication

Question

I have build a very small web application using Flask. Now I would like to add very basic authentication to the site (I don\'t need authorization). As Flask does not support aut

Answer 1

Flask has an OpenAuth extension that's written by the Armin Ronacher (Flask's author). It provides Flask with support for Open Auth 1.0.

Answer 2

You should take a look at repoze.who, which is authentication framework for WSGI application with plugins available for:

• HTTP basic/digest
• Auth via HTML forms with storing auth ticket in cookies.
• OpenID
• OAuth
• LDAP
• Many more I don't know...

Answer 3

If you're looking to authorize clients against facebook, why not use the python sdk they provide that includes an oauth interface found here https://github.com/facebook/python-sdk.