Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

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To enable LDAP authentication for your application, follow these steps:

1. As always, start with the configuration part in my_app/__init__.py, as follows:

import ldapapp.config['LDAP_PROVIDER_URL'] = 'ldap://localhost'def get_ldap_connection():    conn = ldap.initialize(app.config['LDAP_PROVIDER_URL'])    return conn

In the preceding code snippet, we imported ldap, then created an app configuration option that points to the LDAP server address. This is followed by the creation of a simple function, get_ldap_connection, which creates the LDAP connection object on the server and then returns that connection object.

2. Next, modify the views, that is, my_app/auth/views.py, where a new route, ldap_login, is created to facilitate login ...