Simple-auth

Framework-agnostic HTTP Basic authentication for Node.js (no need for express/connect/insert-web-framework).

Example

var http = require('http')
  , basic_auth = require('simple-auth')('username123', 'password456')

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  basic_auth(req, res, function() {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'})
    res.end('Your username & password were correct\n')
  })
}).listen(31337, '127.0.0.1')

console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:31337/')

Installation

$ npm install simple-auth

API

basic_auth(username, password[, fail_delay])

Returns a function that receives (req, res, next), where next will only be called if the user authenticates.

fail_delay is the number of milliseconds that the user will be prevented from retrying after a failed authentication (defaults to 5000).

License

MIT