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

There's no need to write an authentication backend for the use case you have written. Writing an IP based dispatcher in the middleware layer will likely be sufficient

If your app's url(s) is/are matched, process_request should check for an authenticated django user and match that user to a whitelist.