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koa-auth-basic
Advanced tools
Basic auth with custom credential check.
$ npm install koa-auth-basic
Protect downstream middleware:
const auth = require('koa-auth-basic')
const Koa = require('koa')
const app = new Koa()
// custom 401 handling
app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
try {
await next()
} catch (err) {
if (401 == err.status) {
ctx.status = 401
ctx.set('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic')
ctx.body = 'cant haz that'
} else {
throw err
}
}
})
// require auth
app.use(auth({
checkCredentials: function (name, pass) {
return /^[kK]a(bir|ran)$/.test(name) && pass === 'secret'
}
}))
// secret response
app.use(async (ctx) => {
ctx.body = 'secret'
});
app.listen(3000, function () {
console.log('listening on port 3000')
})
Example request:
$ curl -H "Authorization: basic dGo6dG9iaQ==" http://localhost:3000/ -i
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: koa
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 6
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:35:17 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
secret
Using the mount middleware you may specify auth for a given prefix:
const mount = require('koa-mount')
const auth = require('koa-auth-basic')
app.use(mount('/admin', auth({
checkCredentials: function (name, pass) {
return name === 'kbrgl' && pass === 'secret'
}
})))
MIT
koa-auth-basic is inspired by koa-basic-auth
FAQs
Koa basic auth middleware with custom credential check
We found that koa-auth-basic 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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