auth-aws4

Usecase agnostic implementation of AWS4 Sig v4

This implementation aims to be usecase agnostic. As such it accepts the component pieces of a request rather than a full opinionated request object like httpx.Request.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/sig-v4-authenticating-requests.html

Usage

Validation

from aws4 import generate_challenge, validate_challenge

payload = "<extract content from request>"

challenge = generate_challenge(
    method=request.method,
    url=request.url,
    headers=request.headers,
    content=payload.decode("utf-8"),
)

secret_access_key = <load secret key using the challenge.access_key_id>

validate_challenge(challenge, secret_key.secret_access_key)

Signing

An example of an httpx AWS4 request signing. In this example the Authorization header is injected into request.headers

from datetime import datetime, timezone

import aws4


service = "s3"
region = "us-east-1"
access_key_id = "my-access-key-id"
secret_access_key = "my-secret-access-key"

def http_aws4_auth(request: httpx.Request):
    dt = datetime.now(tz=timezone.utc)
    request.headers["x-amz-date"] = aws4.to_amz_date(dt)
    request.headers["host"] = request.url.netloc.decode("utf-8")

    body = request.content.decode("utf-8")
    if body:
        request.headers["Content-Length"] = str(len(body))

    aws4.sign_request(
        service,
        request.method,
        request.url,
        region,
        request.headers,
        body,
        access_key_id,
        secret_access_key,
        dt,
    )

with httpx.Client() as client:
    r = client.request(
        url="http://localhost",
        auth=auth,
    )

Extra credit

Thanks to @ozzzzz and @ivanmisic for work on the initial httpx/fastapi implementations this was extracted from.