gistfile1.py

from paste.httpserver import serve

from pyramid.view import view_config
from pyramid.response import Response

@view_config(route_name='login', request_method='GET')
@view_config(context='pyramid.exceptions.Forbidden')
def login(request):
    return Response('Log In', status=401)

@view_config(route_name='protected', permission='nevergonnagetit')
def protected(request):
    return Response('Oh you got it')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from pyramid.config import Configurator
    from pyramid.authentication import AuthTktAuthenticationPolicy
    c = Configurator(authentication_policy=AuthTktAuthenticationPolicy('w'))
    c.add_route('login', '/login')
    c.add_route('protected', '/protected')
    c.scan('__main__')
    serve(c.make_wsgi_app())
    
             
# [chrism@thinko ~]$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:8080/login
# HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
# Server: PasteWSGIServer/0.5 Python/2.6.5
# Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:34:25 GMT
# Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
# Content-Length: 6

# Log In[chrism@thinko ~]$ curl -i http://127.0.0.1:8080/protected
# HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
# Server: PasteWSGIServer/0.5 Python/2.6.5
# Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:34:28 GMT
# Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
# Content-Length: 6