canonical.launchpad.webapp.authentication : API documentation

Class	PlacelessAuthUtility	An authentication service which holds no state aside from its
Class	SSHADigestEncryptor	SSHA is a modification of the SHA digest scheme with a salt
Class	LaunchpadLoginSource	A login source that uses the launchpad SQL database to look up
Class	LaunchpadPrincipal	Undocumented
Class	TemporaryPrincipalAnnotations	Undocumented
Class	TemporaryUnauthenticatedPrincipalAnnotations	Undocumented
Function	get_oauth_authorization	Retrieve OAuth authorization information from a request.
Function	check_oauth_signature	Check that the given OAuth request is correctly signed.

def get_oauth_authorization(request):

Retrieve OAuth authorization information from a request.

The authorization information may be in the Authorization header, or it might be in the query string or entity-body.

Returns a dictionary of authorization information.

def check_oauth_signature(request, consumer, token):

Check that the given OAuth request is correctly signed.

If the signature is incorrect or its method is not supported, set the appropriate status in the request's response and return False.

c.l.w.authentication : module documentation