AuthRPC

AuthRPC is a tool that provides a service based on JSONRPC with some small additions to the standard in order to enable authenticated requests. The WSGI specification is used for data communication. The package is broken down into two halves - a client and a server. For security, the server is best run over HTTPS, although this is not enforced.

The server depends on WebOb 1.0.0 and above. This is automatically installed if you have an internet connection, otherwise download and install from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WebOb

If you install under Python 3, only the client package is available at the moment, until WebOb has been ported to python 3.

Example Usage (Server):

import hashlib
from wsgiref import simple_server
from AuthRPC.server import AuthRPCApp

def myauth(username, password, useragent):
 return username == 'myuser' and \
 password == hashlib.md5('secret').hexdigest() and \
 useragent == 'myprogram'

class api(object):
 def do_something(self, myvar):
 """Your code placed here"""
 return 'Something', myvar

application = AuthRPCApp(api(), auth=myauth)
simple_server.make_server('localhost', 1234, application)

Example Usage (Client):

from AuthRPC.client import ServerProxy
client = ServerProxy('http://localhost:1234/',
 username='myuser',
 password='secret',
 user_agent='myprogram')
retval = client.do_something('test')

What is new in this release:

• Use generator with __getfile__ (uses much less memory)
• Fixed security issue with __getfile__ - do not allow access to whole disk!
• Handle exceptions in auth function
• Fixed encrypting of no password
• Changed README code examples

What is new in version 0.3.0 Alpha:

• Changed/renamed exceptions that are generated (client)

What is new in version 0.2.0 Alpha:

• Added __getfile__ mechanism

Requirements:

• Python