basicauth

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basicauth

HTTP basic access authentication

Example:

var up *basicauth.UserPass

func makeHandler(fn func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request)) http.HandlerFunc {
	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		defer func() {
			if e, ok := recover().(error); ok {
				http.Error(w, e.Error(), http.StatusInternalServerError)
				return
			}
		}()
		if up.IsAllowed(r) {
			fn(w, r)
		} else {
			basicauth.SendUnauthorized(w, r, "montorrent")
		}
	}
}

func main() {
	var err error
	up, err = basicauth.New("foo:bar")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	http.Handle("/", makeHandler(someHandler))
	http.ListenAndServe(*host, nil)
}

Documentation

Overview

Package basicauth provides HTTP basic access authentication.

Index

• type UserPass
  • func NewUserPass(userpass string) (*UserPass, error)
• type UserPassHandler
  • func (uph *UserPassHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)

Types

type UserPass

type UserPass struct {
	U string // username
	P string // password
}

func NewUserPass

func NewUserPass(userpass string) (*UserPass, error)

NewUserPass takes a username:password string and returns a *UserPass.

type UserPassHandler

type UserPassHandler struct {
	UP *UserPass
	H  http.Handler
	HF func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request)
}

func (*UserPassHandler) ServeHTTP

func (uph *UserPassHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)