Using Basic HTTP access authentication in Django testing framework

Here's how I did it:

from django.test import Clientimport base64auth_headers = {    'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION': 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode('username:password'),}c = Client()response = c.get('/my-protected-url/', **auth_headers)

Note: You will also need to create a user.

In your Django TestCase you can update the client defaults to contain your HTTP basic auth credentials.

import base64from django.test import TestCaseclass TestMyStuff(TestCase):    def setUp(self):        credentials = base64.b64encode('username:password')        self.client.defaults['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = 'Basic ' + credentials

For python3, you can base64-encode your username:password string:

base64.b64encode(b'username:password')

This returns bytes, so you need to transfer it into an ASCII string with .decode('ascii'):

Complete example:

import base64from django.test import TestCaseclass TestClass(TestCase):   def test_authorized(self):       headers = {           'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION': 'Basic ' +                 base64.b64encode(b'username:password').decode("ascii")       }       response = self.client.get('/', **headers)       self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)