I got some basic API calls working in my local machine running “manage.py runserver”. Once I pushed it live, the basic authentication would not work. I’m hosting with Webfaction so I posted to the forum for help and continued to look.

I wasn’t making progress at all so I started looking for another API framework and learned of Piston. In hindsight I would have started here because it was developed by bitbucket.org and it seems it will have much longer longevity.

In any case, while reading the docs for Piston I saw this note:

Note: that using piston.authentication.HttpBasicAuthentication with apache and mod_wsgi requires you to add the WSGIPassAuthorization On directive to the server or vhost config, otherwise django-piston cannot read the authentication data from HTTP_AUTHORIZATION in request.META. See: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ConfigurationDirectives#WSGIPassAuthorization.

That was the clue I needed! I added this one-liner to apache config and… still didn’t work.

I then went through the process of upgrading. I was running Django (1.0.2)/mod_wsgi (2.0)/Python (2.5), I upgraded to Django (1.1.1)/mod_wsgi (2.5)/Python (2.5). Now, with the “WSGIPassAuthorization On” it works.

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