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@mongodb-js/saslprep
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SASLprep: Stringprep Profile for User Names and Passwords, rfc4013
Note: This is a fork of the original saslprep npm package
and provides equivalent functionality.
Stringprep Profile for User Names and Passwords, rfc4013
const saslprep = require('@mongodb-js/saslprep');
saslprep('password\u00AD'); // password
saslprep('password\u0007'); // Error: prohibited character
saslprep(input: String, opts: Options): StringNormalize user name or password.
Options.allowUnassigned: boolA special behavior for unassigned code points, see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4013#section-2.5. Disabled by default.
MIT, 2017-2019 (c) Dmitriy Tsvettsikh
This package provides similar functionality to @mongodb-js/saslprep. It implements the SASLprep algorithm for preparing strings for use in SASL mechanisms. The main difference is that it may be maintained by different authors or have slightly different API designs or dependencies.
The stringprep package is an older implementation of the string preparation algorithms, including SASLprep. It is based on the now-deprecated node-stringprep package. Compared to @mongodb-js/saslprep, it may not be as up-to-date or maintained, and it might have more dependencies since it was built for older versions of Node.js.
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SASLprep: Stringprep Profile for User Names and Passwords, rfc4013
The npm package @mongodb-js/saslprep receives a total of 8,339,780 weekly downloads. As such, @mongodb-js/saslprep popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @mongodb-js/saslprep demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 8 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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