toastdriven/django-tastypie — Issue #310: BasicAuthentication.is_authenticated requires the HTTP_AUTHORIZATION header to start with "Basic" (i.e., "BASIC" and "basic" are not allowed)
Author: rbarlow
Created: 2011-12-09 23:02:43+00:00
State: open

The HTTP specs RFC [0] reference the email RFC [1] section 3.4.7, which states that capitalization does not matter. Tastypie is requiring the specific capitalization "Basic" to appear for BasicAuthentication.

[0] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt 4.2
[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc822.txt 3.4.7