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scripts.mit.edu webscript for putting basic authorization in front of a JSON file
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| #!/usr/bin/python | |
| # Simple scripts.mit.edu webscript for putting | |
| # basic authorization in front of a JSON file. | |
| # Put this in a public/ subdir of web_scripts | |
| # and your private data in a private/ subdir. | |
| import os, io, json, sys | |
| EXPECTED_FILE_KEY = "<password>" | |
| PRIVATE_JSON = "<filename>.json" | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| key = os.environ.get("HTTP_X_FILE_KEY", "") | |
| if key == EXPECTED_FILE_KEY: | |
| p = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'private', PRIVATE_JSON) | |
| print "Content-Type: application/json" | |
| print "Cache-Control: no-store\n" | |
| s = io.open(p, 'r', encoding='utf-8').read() | |
| sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(json.loads(s))) | |
| else: | |
| print "Status: 401 Unauthorized" | |
| print "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8" | |
| print "Cache-Control: no-store\n" | |
| print "nope: %s key" % ("bad" if key else "missing") |
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