express-authentication-header
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Authenticate against any RFC7235 HTTP Authorization header, compatible with express-authentication
Authenticate against any RFC7235 HTTP Authorization header, compatible with express-authentication.
var header = require('express-authentication-header'),
auth = require('express-authentication');
// Validate the challenge
app.use(header({
scheme: 'API',
verify: function(challenge, callback) {
callback(null, challenge.token === 'secret');
}
}));
app.get('/', auth.required(), function(req, res) {
res.status(200).send('Hello world.');
});
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Authenticate against any RFC7235 HTTP Authorization header, compatible with express-authentication
The npm package express-authentication-header receives a total of 14 weekly downloads. As such, express-authentication-header popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that express-authentication-header 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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