mxcubecore.HardwareObjects.SecureXMLRpcRequestHandler

Secure XML RPC request handler for workflow execution based on tokens. Inspired from this code: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496786-simple-xml-rpc-server-over-https

Classes

SecureXMLRpcRequestHandler(request, ...)

Secure XML-RPC request handler class.

class mxcubecore.HardwareObjects.SecureXMLRpcRequestHandler.SecureXMLRpcRequestHandler(request, client_address, server)

Bases: SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler

Secure XML-RPC request handler class.

It it very similar to SimpleXMLRPCRequestHandler but it checks for a “Token” entry in the header. If this token doesn’t correspond to a reference token the server sends a “401” (Unauthorized) reply.

do_POST()

Handles the HTTPS POST request.

It was copied out from SimpleXMLRPCServer.py and modified to check for “Token” in the headers.