Flexible HTTP Basic Authentication for Connect Framework.

Why

This project came to live due to the lack of flexibility of the existent middlewares, specially when developing RESTful APIs.

Features

• Easy to use
• Asynchronous
• Gives you access to the request and response objects from your authentication callback.
• Lets you send a custom response body along with the Authorization Required header. Useful for RESTful APIs.

How to use

var basicAuth = require('connect-basic-auth');
var express = require('express');
 
var app = express.createServer();
app.use(basicAuth(function(credentials, req, res, next) {
  /**
   * Credentials has the following structure: 
   * {
   *   username: 'c4milo'
   *   password: 'lepassword'
   * }
   **/
  Account.authenticate(credentials, function(error) {
    next(error);
  });
 
 
}, 'Please enter your credentials.'));
 
//Routes that do not require authentication go first
app.post('/accounts', function(req, res, next) {
  //Creates an Account.
});
 
//Lets require authentication for the rest of our routes.
app.all('*', function(req, res, next) {
  req.requireAuthorization(req, res, next);
});
 
app.get('/accounts/:username', function(req, res, next) {
  //Returns :username account information
});
 

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright 2012 Camilo Aguilar. All rights reserved.

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