template include and js code for implementing Kerberos autologin

To get autologin on a public view just do

 {% include 'django_kerberos/autologin.html' %}

src/django_kerberos/static/js/autologin.js

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+
+function autologin(url, callback, timeout) {
+  function createCookie(name,value,seconds) {
+      if (seconds) {
+            var date = new Date();
+                date.setTime(date.getTime() + (seconds*1000));
+                    var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
+                      }
+        else var expires = "";
+          document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
+  }
+
+  function readCookie(name) {
+      var nameEQ = name + "=";
+        var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
+          for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
+                var c = ca[i];
+                    while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
+                        if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
+                      }
+            return null;
+  }
+  function getXmlHttpRequestObject() {
+      if(window.ActiveXObject) {
+          return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); //IE
+      } else {
+          return new XMLHttpRequest(); 
+      }
+  }
+  timeout = timeout || (60*15);
+  if (readCookie('autologin')) {
+    callback(false);
+  } else {
+    xhr = getXmlHttpRequestObject();
+    xhr.open("GET", url, true);
+    xhr.setRequestHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest');
+    xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
+      if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
+        var ok = xhr.responseText == 'true';
+        callback(ok);
+        if (ok) {
+          createCookie('autologin', '1', timeout);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    xhr.send(null);
+  }
+}

src/django_kerberos/templates/django_kerberos/autologin.html

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+{% load staticfiles %}
+{% if not user.is_authenticated %}
+<div id="kerberos-autologin">
+  Autologin...
+  <script src="{% static "js/autologin.js" %}" type="text/javascript">
+  </script>
+  <script type="text/javascript">
+    autologin('{% url 'kerberos-login' %}', function (ok) {
+      var el = document.getElementById('kerberos-autologin')
+      if (ok) {
+        location.reload();
+        el.innerHtml = 'Logged in, reloading...';
+      } else {
+        el.parentNode.removeChild(el);
+      }
+    });
+  </script>
+</div>
+{% endif %}