Can I use HTTP Basic Authentication with Django?

Question

We have a website running on Apache, access to which has a number of static pages protected via HTTP Basic authentication.

I\'ve written a new part of the site with

Answer 1

For just supporting basic auth on some requests (and not mucking with the web server -- which is how someone might interpret your question title), you will want to look here:

http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/243/