def METHOD_NAME(realm, checkpassword, debug=False, accept_charset='utf-8'):
    """A CherryPy tool which hooks at before_handler to perform
    HTTP Basic Access Authentication, as specified in :rfc:`2617`
    and :rfc:`7617`.
    If the request has an 'authorization' header with a 'Basic' scheme, this
    tool attempts to authenticate the credentials supplied in that header.  If
    the request has no 'authorization' header, or if it does but the scheme is
    not 'Basic', or if authentication fails, the tool sends a 401 response with
    a 'WWW-Authenticate' Basic header.
    realm
        A string containing the authentication realm.
    checkpassword
        A callable which checks the authentication credentials.
        Its signature is checkpassword(realm, username, password). where
        username and password are the values obtained from the request's
        'authorization' header.  If authentication succeeds, checkpassword
        returns True, else it returns False.
    """
    fallback_charset = 'ISO-8859-1'
    if '"' in realm:
        raise ValueError('Realm cannot contain the " (quote) character.')
    request = cherrypy.serving.request
    auth_header = request.headers.get('authorization')
    if auth_header is not None:
        # split() error, base64.decodestring() error
        msg = 'Bad Request'
        with cherrypy.HTTPError.handle((ValueError, binascii.Error), 400, msg):
            scheme, params = auth_header.split(' ', 1)
            if scheme.lower() == 'basic':
                charsets = accept_charset, fallback_charset
                decoded_params = base64.b64decode(params.encode('ascii'))
                decoded_params = _try_decode(decoded_params, charsets)
                decoded_params = ntou(decoded_params)
                decoded_params = unicodedata.normalize('NFC', decoded_params)
                decoded_params = tonative(decoded_params)
                username, password = decoded_params.split(':', 1)
                if checkpassword(realm, username, password):
                    if debug:
                        cherrypy.log('Auth succeeded', 'TOOLS.AUTH_BASIC')
                    request.login = username
                    return  # successful authentication
    charset = accept_charset.upper()
    charset_declaration = (
        (', charset="%s"' % charset)
        if charset != fallback_charset
        else ''
    )
    # Respond with 401 status and a WWW-Authenticate header
    cherrypy.serving.response.headers['www-authenticate'] = (
        'Basic realm="%s"%s' % (realm, charset_declaration)
    )
    raise cherrypy.HTTPError(
        401, 'You are not authorized to access that resource')