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The basic-auth npm package is a simple module to parse `Authorization` header for basic authentication in Node.js applications. It extracts the user credentials from the header and makes them available for authentication purposes.
Parse Basic Auth Credentials
This code demonstrates how to use basic-auth to parse the `Authorization` header in an Express.js application. It checks if the credentials match a predefined username and password, and either grants access or denies it with a 401 status code.
const auth = require('basic-auth');
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.use((req, res) => {
const credentials = auth(req);
if (!credentials || credentials.name !== 'user' || credentials.pass !== 'pass') {
res.statusCode = 401;
res.setHeader('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic realm="example"');
res.end('Access denied');
} else {
res.end('Access granted');
}
});
app.listen(3000);
Passport-http is a strategy for Passport, an authentication middleware for Node.js. It implements Basic and Digest authentication. Compared to basic-auth, passport-http is more feature-rich, allowing for integration with the broader Passport ecosystem and providing more options for authentication.
Express-basic-auth is an authentication library designed specifically for Express.js applications. It provides a simple way to protect routes with basic authentication. Unlike basic-auth, which only parses the credentials, express-basic-auth handles the full authentication process, making it easier to use but less flexible for non-Express use cases.
Http-auth is a module that provides basic and digest authentication for HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It is similar to basic-auth but offers more features, such as integration with different types of data stores for credential checking and support for digest authentication.
Generic basic auth Authorization header field parser for whatever.
This is a Node.js module available through the
npm registry. Installation is done using the
npm install
command:
$ npm install basic-auth
var auth = require('basic-auth')
Get the basic auth credentials from the given request. The Authorization
header is parsed and if the header is invalid, undefined
is returned,
otherwise an object with name
and pass
properties.
Parse a basic auth authorization header string. This will return an object
with name
and pass
properties, or undefined
if the string is invalid.
Pass a node request or koa Context object to the module exported. If
parsing fails undefined
is returned, otherwise an object with
.name
and .pass
.
var auth = require('basic-auth')
var user = auth(req)
// => { name: 'something', pass: 'whatever' }
A header string from any other location can also be parsed with
auth.parse
, for example a Proxy-Authorization
header:
var auth = require('basic-auth')
var user = auth.parse(req.getHeader('Proxy-Authorization'))
var http = require('http')
var auth = require('basic-auth')
// Create server
var server = http.createServer(function (req, res) {
var credentials = auth(req)
if (!credentials || credentials.name !== 'john' || credentials.pass !== 'secret') {
res.statusCode = 401
res.setHeader('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic realm="example"')
res.end('Access denied')
} else {
res.end('Access granted')
}
})
// Listen
server.listen(3000)
FAQs
node.js basic auth parser
The npm package basic-auth receives a total of 6,698,625 weekly downloads. As such, basic-auth popularity was classified as popular.
We found that basic-auth demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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