I wrote a forms authentication plugin for CherryPy

[DarrylA]

How do I go about submitting a tool for review to be included into the
code base?

I wrote a first-class forms authentication plugin for CherryPy.
Here's how it works:

In your config, you'd add these lines:

tools.auth_forms.on = True
tools.auth_forms.login_url = "/path/to/my/login"
tools.auth_forms.session_key = "STARTREKISGREAT"

In your login page handler, you'd do something like this:

@cherrypy.expose
def login(self, username=None, password=None, returnUrl="/"):

if username is None or password is None:
return .... login screen template .render(returnUrl = returnUrl)

error_msg = AuthenticationDB.check_credentials(username, password)
if error_msg:
return .... login screen template .render(returnUrl = returnUrl,
errorMsg = error_msg, username = username)
else:
HTTPFormsAuthentication.login_and_redirect(username, returnUrl)

@cherrypy.expose
def logout(self, returnUrl="/"):
HTTPFormsAuthentication.logout()
raise cherrypy.HTTPRedirect(returnUrl)

That's it! I can send the plugin to whomever.

-DarrylA

[Sylvain Hellegouarch]

Hi Darry,

We seldom add new tools to the core because this means more maintaining and we are too few. Usually we advise contributors to add their code to the tools wiki http://tools.cherrypy.org/ which acts as a more central point for those contributions.

Thanks, 

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