accessing request headers on django/python

Question

I need to create a secure restFUL api using sencha and django. I am fairly new to python. So far i am able to send request from sencha to server using basic authentication as below

 new Ext.data.Store({    proxy: {      type: "ajax",       headers: {        "Authorization": "Basic asdjksdfsksf="     }    }  })   

In php/apache i can access those header with ease with the code below

$headers = apache_request_headers(); print_r($headers); 

How to do this in python?

Answer 1

You can access them within a view using request.META, which is a dictionary.

If you wanted the Authorization header, you could do request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION']

If you're creating a restful API from scratch, you might want to take a look at using tastypie.

Answer 2

You can use

request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] 

and sometimes

request.META['Authorization'] 

can help.