UserExtract is the
WSGI application which manages the
credentials extractor subsystem.
Every incoming request passes through
UserExtract which in turn passes the request through one or more configured credentials extractors. These look for user information in the request and attempt to validate it. If valid the information is used to set
tiddlyweb.usersign in the environment. If the extractor finds no valid information it returns
False and the next extractor is tried. If no extractor finds valid information,
tidddlyweb.usersign is set to
GUEST.