Authenticate by IP address in Django

Question

I have a small Django application with a view that I want to restrict to certain users. Anyone from a specific network should be able to see that view without any further au

Answer 1

You can try this decorator. I have tested its working fine:

allowedIps = ['129.0.0.1', '127.0.0.1']
def allow_by_ip(view_func):
    def authorize(request, *args, **kwargs):
        user_ip = request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']
        for ip in allowedIps:
            if ip==user_ip:
                return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
        return HttpResponse('Invalid Ip Access!')
    return authorize