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@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Example Authentication with DevAuth:
Authorization is performed through callbacks by the Swift Proxy server to the
WSGI environment's swift.authorize value, if one is set. The swift.authorize
value should simply be a function that takes a WebOb. Request as an argument and
value should simply be a function that takes a webob. Request as an argument and
returns None if access is granted or returns a callable(environ,
start_response) if access is denied. This callable is a standard WSGI callable.
Generally, you should return 403 Forbidden for requests by an authenticated
@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ then swift.authorize will be called once more. These are called delay_denial
requests and currently include container read requests and object read and
write requests. For these requests, the read or write access control string
(X-Container-Read and X-Container-Write) will be fetched and set as the 'acl'
attribute in the WebOb.Request passed to swift.authorize.
attribute in the webob.Request passed to swift.authorize.
The delay_denial procedures allow skipping possibly expensive access control
string retrievals for requests that can be approved without that information,
@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ The access control string has a standard format included with Swift, though
this can be overridden if desired. The standard format can be parsed with
swift.common.middleware.acl.parse_acl which converts the string into two arrays
of strings: (referrers, groups). The referrers allow comparing the request's
Referrer header to control access. The groups allow comparing the
Referer header to control access. The groups allow comparing the
request.remote_user (or other sources of group information) to control access.
Checking referrer access can be accomplished by using the
swift.common.middleware.acl.referrer_allowed function. Checking group access is

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@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ most Linux platforms with the following software:
And the following python libraries:
* Eventlet 0.9.8
* Webob 0.9.8
* WebOb 0.9.8
* Setuptools
* Simplejson
* Xattr