accessing request headers on django/python

Question

I need to create a secure restFUL api using sencha and django. I am fairly new to python. So far i am able to send request from sencha to server using basic authentication as below

 new Ext.data.Store({
   proxy: {
     type: "ajax",
      headers: {
       "Authorization": "Basic asdjksdfsksf="
    }
   }
 })  

In php/apache i can access those header with ease with the code below

$headers = apache_request_headers();
print_r($headers);

How to do this in python?

Solution 1

You can access them within a view using request.META, which is a dictionary.

If you wanted the Authorization header, you could do request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION']

If you're creating a restful API from scratch, you might want to take a look at using tastypie.

Solution 2

You can use

request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION']

and sometimes

request.META['Authorization']

can help.

Solution 3

As of django 2.2 HttpRequest.headers were added to allow simple access to a request’s headers. So now you can also get authentication header using get() function on request.headers

request.headers.get('Authorization')

This will give you value token value back.

Bearer eyJ0eYourToken...

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.headers