server.pem

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIICXAIBAAKBgQDGfYKCcOkzpH+Ps31sn82IHu03ykpt1/sydC2I2xDQ7WYNffGP
0wOfVpPHYv+frfRM0J7QiHlJsVe/5/aCAt3lsdlBDBgbTyt0ZURWzPfDYZAZduaa
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Y3BncK0FCiz+OT71aryvAMrxAgBloo70+a27mkoSBlI=
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIICsDCCAhmgAwIBAgIJAKZVVjLHpH/xMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAMEUxCzAJBgNV
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BT6z0uG3RbrD7NAbULjwnrOm8ng=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

SimpleAuthServer.py

import BaseHTTPServer
from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
import sys
import base64
import ssl

key = ""

class AuthHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    ''' Main class to present webpages and authentication. '''
    def do_HEAD(self):
        print "send header"
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
        self.end_headers()

    def do_AUTHHEAD(self):
        print "send header"
        self.send_response(401)
        self.send_header('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic realm=\"Test\"')
        self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
        self.end_headers()

    def do_GET(self):
        global key
        ''' Present frontpage with user authentication. '''
        if self.headers.getheader('Authorization') == None:
            self.do_AUTHHEAD()
            self.wfile.write('no auth header received')
            pass
        elif self.headers.getheader('Authorization') == 'Basic '+key:
            SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self)
            pass
        else:
            self.do_AUTHHEAD()
            self.wfile.write(self.headers.getheader('Authorization'))
            self.wfile.write('not authenticated')
            pass

def test(HandlerClass = AuthHandler,
         ServerClass = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer):
    httpd = ServerClass(('', 4443), HandlerClass)
    httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket, certfile='./server.pem', server_side=True)
    httpd.serve_forever()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv)<2:
        print "usage SimpleAuthServer.py [username:password]"
        sys.exit()
    key = base64.b64encode(sys.argv[1])
    test()