authenticated

authenticated

ensure a request is authenticated

example usage

Default behavior is to redirect to login:

var authenticated = require('authenticated')

app.get('/secret-recipe',
  authenticated,
  function (req, res) {
    // note, you still might want to do
    // some sort of authorization, which
    // is out of this module's scope
    res.send(secrets)
  })

Respond with 401:

app.get('/secret-recipe',
  authenticated.or401,
  function (req, res) {
    res.send(secrets)
  })

Override custom behavior for unauthenticated requests:

app.get('/secret-recipe',
  authenticated.orElse(function (req, res) {
      // some other behavior
      res.send('decoy recipe')
  }),
  function (req, res) {
    res.send(secrets)
  })

note

We currently check for authenticated requests by looking for req.session.passport.user._id, which happens to work in our particular use case. This is super inflexible. Please open a GitHub thread with your use case or suggestion for making this check better.

installation

$ npm install authenticated

running the tests

From package root:

$ npm install
$ npm test

contributors

jden [e-mail]

license

MIT. (c) 2013 Agile Diagnosis [e-mail]. See LICENSE.md