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+from django.contrib.auth import authenticate
+import base64
+
+class BaseAuthenticator(object):
+    """All authenticators should extend BaseAuthenticator."""
+
+    def __init__(self, resource):
+        """Initialise the authenticator with the Resource instance as state,
+        in case the authenticator needs to access any metadata on the Resource object."""
+        self.resource = resource
+
+    def authenticate(self, request):
+        """Authenticate the request and return the authentication context or None.
+
+        The default permission checking on Resource will use the allowed_methods attribute
+        for permissions if the authentication context is not None, and use anon_allowed_methods otherwise.
+
+        The authentication context is passed to the method calls eg Resource.get(request, auth) in order to
+        allow them to apply any more fine grained permission checking at the point the response is being generated.
+        
+        This function must be overridden to be implemented."""
+        return None
+
+
+class BasicAuthenticator(BaseAuthenticator):
+    """Use HTTP Basic authentication"""
+    def authenticate(self, request):
+        if 'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' in request.META:
+            auth = request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'].split()
+            if len(auth) == 2 and auth[0].lower() == "basic":
+                uname, passwd = base64.b64decode(auth[1]).split(':')
+                user = authenticate(username=uname, password=passwd)
+                if user is not None and user.is_active:
+                    return user
+        return None
+                
+
+class UserLoggedInAuthenticator(BaseAuthenticator):
+    """Use Djagno's built-in request session for authentication."""
+    def authenticate(self, request):
+        if request.user and request.user.is_active:
+            return request.user
+        return None
+