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hapi-auth-basic-key
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Fork of hapi-auth-basic that is intended to handle API keys as the username field of HTTP basic auth requests. The password portion of the authorization is available, but not required. Could be useful for session tokens.
Basic authentication requires validating a username and password combination. The 'basic' scheme takes the following options:
validate - (required) a user lookup and password validation function with the signature [async] function(request, username, password, h) where:
request - is the hapi request object of the request which is being authenticated.username - the username (api key) received from the client.password - (optional) the password received from the client. Useful for session tokens.h - the response toolkit.{ isValid, credentials, response } where:
isValid - true if both the username was found and the password matched, otherwise false.credentials - a credentials object passed back to the application in request.auth.credentials.response - Optional. If provided will be used immediately as a takeover response. Can be used to redirect the client, for example. Don't need to provide isValid or credentials if response is providedBoom.unauthorized errorcredentials are only included when isValid is true, but there are cases when the application needs to know who tried to authenticate even when it fails (e.g. with authentication mode 'try').allowEmptyUsername - (optional) if true, allows making requests with an empty username. Defaults to false.unauthorizedAttributes - (optional) if set, passed directly to Boom.unauthorized if no custom err is thrown. Useful for setting realm attribute in WWW-Authenticate header. Defaults to undefined.const Hapi = require('hapi');
const keys = {
SUPER_SECRET_API_KEY: { // <-- Your API key
name: 'Your Api Key Name',
id: '2133d32a'
}
};
const validate = async (request, username, password, h) => {
const key = keys[username]; // username=api key
if (!key) {
return { credentials: null, isValid: false };
}
// could further validate password if using it as a session token or something
return { credentials: key, isValid: true };
};
const main = async () => {
const server = Hapi.server({ port: 4000 });
await server.register(require('hapi-auth-basic-key'));
server.auth.strategy('simple', 'basic', { validate });
server.auth.default('simple');
server.route({
method: 'GET',
path: '/',
handler: function (request, h) {
return 'welcome';
},
// config: { auth: 'simple' } // if not applied globally
});
await server.start();
return server;
};
main().then((server) => console.log(`Server listening on ${server.info.uri}`)).catch((err) => {
console.error(err);
process.exit(1);
});
FAQs
Basic api-key-as-username authentication plugin
We found that hapi-auth-basic-key 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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