diff -r 000000000000 -r a3b6e531f0d2 iro/xmlrpc/AuthentificateXMLRPCServer.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/iro/xmlrpc/AuthentificateXMLRPCServer.py	Thu Oct 22 10:00:01 2009 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# Server code
+import SimpleXMLRPCServer
+import string,base64
+
+class AuthentificateXMLRPCRequestHandler(SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler):
+    def do_POST(self):
+        try:
+            header =  self.headers['Authorization']
+            type, user_passwd = header.split()
+            username, password = string.split(base64.decodestring(user_passwd), ':')
+            if self.testUser(username,password):
+                SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler.do_POST(self)
+            else:
+                self.report_error(401)  
+        except:
+            self.report_error(401)
+
+    def report_error (self,code):
+        '''
+        Send back an errorcode
+        '''
+        #it is important to read out the complete sended request , 
+        # but throw the data away, because an error should be send back
+        try:
+            max_chunk_size = 10*1024*1024
+            size_remaining = int(self.headers["content-length"])
+            while size_remaining:
+                chunk_size = min(size_remaining, max_chunk_size)
+                size_remaining -= len(self.rfile.read(chunk_size))
+        except:
+            pass
+
+        #now just send the error back
+        special_errors={401:self.report_401, 
+                                    404:self.report_404}
+        if special_errors.has_key(code):
+             special_errors[code]()
+        else:
+            self.send_response(code)
+            self.end_headers()
+            self.connection.shutdown(1)
+    
+    def report_401(self):
+        self.send_response(401)
+        self.send_header("WWW-Authenticate", 'Basic realm="%s"'% self.server.relam)
+        response = 'Unauthorised'
+        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/plain")
+        self.send_header("Content-length", str(len(response)))
+        self.end_headers()
+        self.wfile.write(response)
+        # shut down the connection
+        self.wfile.flush()
+        self.connection.shutdown(1)
+        
+    def testUser(self,username,password):
+        """
+        Function for testing authentification
+        """
+        if username=="test" and password=="test":
+                return True
+
+        return False
+
+
+
+def test():
+    server = SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer(("localhost", 8000),AuthentificateXMLRPCRequestHandler)
+    server.relam="xmlrpc"
+    server.register_introspection_functions()
+    server.register_function(lambda x: x*x, 'square')
+    server.serve_forever()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    test()
+
+