Using Basic HTTP access authentication in Django testing framework

In your Django TestCase you can update the client defaults to contain your HTTP basic auth credentials.

import base64
from django.test import TestCase

class TestMyStuff(TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        credentials = base64.b64encode('username:password')
        self.client.defaults['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'] = 'Basic ' + credentials

Here's how I did it:

from django.test import Client
import base64
auth_headers = {
    'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION': 'Basic ' + base64.b64encode('username:password'),
}
c = Client()
response = c.get('/my-protected-url/', **auth_headers)

Note: You will also need to create a user.