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| author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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| date | Thu, 01 Oct 2015 20:43:14 +0200 |
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| 1 Introduction | |
| 2 ============ | |
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| 4 This is an experimental authentication module that does an asynchronous | |
| 5 HTTP call to verify username and password. | |
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| 7 Details | |
| 8 ======= | |
| 9 | |
| 10 When a user attempts to authenticate to Prosody, this module takes the | |
| 11 username and password and does a HTTP GET request with [Basic | |
| 12 authentication][rfc7617] to the configured `http_auth_url`. | |
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| 14 Configuration | |
| 15 ============= | |
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| 17 ``` {.lua} | |
| 18 VirtualHost "example.com" | |
| 19 authentication = "http_async" | |
| 20 http_auth_url = "http://example.com/auth" | |
| 21 ``` | |
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