def view_or_basicauth(view, request, test_func, realm = "", *args, **kwargs):
    """
    This is a helper function used by both 'logged_in_or_basicauth' and
    'has_perm_or_basicauth' that does the nitty of determining if they
    are already logged in or if they have provided proper http-authorization
    and returning the view if all goes well, otherwise responding with a 401.
    """
    if test_func(request.user):
        # Already logged in, just return the view.
        #
        return view(request, *args, **kwargs)

    # They are not logged in. See if they provided login credentials
    #
    if 'HTTP_AUTHORIZATION' in request.META:
        auth = request.META['HTTP_AUTHORIZATION'].split()
        if len(auth) == 2:
            # NOTE: We are only support basic authentication for now.
            #
            if auth[0].lower() == "basic":
                uname, passwd = base64.b64decode(auth[1]).split(':')
                user = authenticate(username=uname, password=passwd)
                if user is not None:
                    if user.is_active:
                        login(request, user)
                        request.user = user
                        return view(request, *args, **kwargs)

    # Either they did not provide an authorization header or
    # something in the authorization attempt failed. Send a 401
    # back to them to ask them to authenticate.
    #
    response = HttpResponse()
    response.status_code = 401
    response['WWW-Authenticate'] = 'Basic realm="%s"' % realm
    return response
    
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