Using Basic HTTP access authentication in Django testing framework

Question

For some of my Django views I\'ve created a decorator that performs Basic HTTP access authentication. However, while writing test cases in Django, it took me a while to wor

Answer 1

In your Django TestCase you can update the client defaults to contain your HTTP basic auth credentials.

import base64
from django.test import TestCase

class TestMyStuff(TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        credentials = base64.b64encode('username:password')
        self.client.defaults['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = 'Basic ' + credentials