README.md

Basic Auth

Generic basic Authorization based on header field, according RFC 2617.

Installation

luarocks install basic-auth

How to works ?

See a example below using Pegasus.lua

local auth      = require 'basic-auth'
local pegasus   = require 'pegasus'

local server = pegasus:new('9090')

server:start(function (req, rep)

    local user = auth(req)

    if user then

    	--[[ 

    	Use credentials from database, file, memory, whatever.
    	This example was used vars :)
    
    	--]] 

    	local fakeUserName = 'admin'
    	local fakePassWord = 'admin'

    	if user.name == fakeUserName and user.pass == fakePassWord then
    		rep:statusCode(200):write('Welcome')
    	else
    		rep:statusCode(403):write('Invalid credentials')
    	end
    else
    	rep:addHeader('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic realm="Restricted"')
	rep:statusCode(401, 'Unauthorized'):write('Authentication required!')
	end
end)

Contributing

• fork
• add your contribution Thank's a lot !
• send pull request

Issues

See the issues here

Tests

 busted

About

Inspired by jshttp and wsapi_basic_auth

License

MIT