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mod_auth_http_async: Wrap up async http request in a function
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
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1 Introduction
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2 ============
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4 This is an experimental authentication module that does an asynchronous
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5 HTTP call to verify username and password.
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7 Details
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8 =======
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10 When a user attempts to authenticate to Prosody, this module takes the
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11 username and password and does a HTTP GET request with [Basic
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12 authentication][rfc7617] to the configured `http_auth_url`.
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14 Configuration
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15 =============
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17 ``` {.lua}
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18 VirtualHost "example.com"
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19 authentication = "http_async"
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20 http_auth_url = "http://example.com/auth"
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21 ```
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