initial stab at an authentication middleware

lib/sitelogin.py

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+from django.contrib.auth.views import logout_then_login, login
+from django.conf import settings
+    
+class SiteLogin:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.login_path = settings.LOGIN_URL
+    def process_request(self, request):
+        if request.user.is_anonymous() and request.path != self.login_path:
+            if request.POST:
+                return login(request)
+            else:
+                return HttpResponseRedirect('%s?next=%s' % (self.login_path, request.path))
+

settings.py

@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
 # URL to send users when they don't have sufficient privileges
 BADPRIVS_URL = '/denied/'
 
+# login url
+LOGIN_URL = '/login/'
+
 # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
 TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
     'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source',