Deny access to unauthenticated users with django channels

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00:00 Deny Access To Unauthenticated Users With Django Channels
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 3

Denying the connection on connect attempt is as simple as this: do not send the accept message at all if you don't want to establish a connection. Channels will close it automatically after a configured amount of time (5 seconds or smth like that by default).

def connect(self, message, **kwargs):
    if not message.user.is_anonymous:
        self.send({"accept": True})

If you do not want to wait and close the connection immediately, just send {"close": True} instead:

def connect(self, message, **kwargs):
    if not message.user.is_anonymous:
        self.send({"accept": True})
    else:
        self.send({"close": True})

For the sake of completeness, here is the explanation from the channels docs. Sadly, this information is not listed in the documentation itself, only in release notes to v1.0.

ANSWER 2

Score 0

Just do this:

if user.is_authenticated():
    # allow it