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brightspace-auth-validation
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'use strict';
const http = require('http');
const validator = new (require('brightspace-auth-validation'))();
const server = http
.createServer((req, res) => {
validator
.fromHeaders(req.headers)
.then(token => {
// token is a BrightspaceAuthToken instance
res.statusCode = 201;
res.end('Hi!\n');
}, e => {
console.error(e);
res.statusCode = e.status || 403;
res.end('Sorry, can\'t let you in!\n');
});
})
.listen(3000);
new AuthTokenValidator([Object options])
-> AuthTokenValidator
String
(https://auth.brightspace.com/core)You may optionally specify the auth instance to connect to.
...new AuthTokenValidator({ issuer: 'https://auth.brightspace.com/core' });
Number
(300)You may optionally specify the allowed clock skew, in seconds, when validating time-based claims.
Number
(18000)Deprecated soon
You may optionally specify the length of time, in seconds, to trust a given key without re-confirmation.
String
Recommended. You may optionally specify a name to send as part of the user agent when fetching keys from the issuer. Assists in tracking issues and RCAs.
...new AuthTokenValidator({ name: 'johns-service' })
.fromHeaders(Object headers)
-> Promise<BrightspaceAuthToken>
Given the incoming request headers, will attempt to extract and validate the authorization signature.
.fromSignature(String signature)
-> Promise<BrightspaceAuthToken>
Validates an authorization signature.
.validateConfiguration()
-> Promise<True>
Will attempt to interact with the provided auth instance. Resolves if all is well, or rejects with an error.
FAQs
Validate an incoming Brightspace JWT
We found that brightspace-auth-validation demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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