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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Moovida - Home multimedia server

# This file is available under one of two license agreements.

# This file is licensed under the GPL version 3.

# See "LICENSE.GPL" in the root of this distribution including a special

# exception to use Moovida with Fluendo's plugins.

# The GPL part of Moovida is also available under a commercial licensing

# agreement from Fluendo.

# See "LICENSE.Moovida" in the root directory of this distribution package

# for details on that license.

# Author: Philippe Normand <philippe@fluendo.com>

import base64

def generate_basic_auth_headers(username, password):

""" Generate HTTP Basic Authentication headers given a username

and a password. This is implemented in respect with RFC 2617.

@param username: user id to use for the authentication against the server

@type username: C{str}

@param password: password to use during the authentication

@type password: C{str}

@rtype: C{dict}

"""

challenge = base64.b64encode("%s:%s" % (username, password))

headers = {"Authorization": ["Basic %s" % challenge]}

return headers