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mod_http_oauth2: Separate extracting credentials from requests and verifying The token endpoint also uses Basic auth, but the password would be the client_secret, so we need to verify against that instead of using test_password(). Splitting this up here avoids code duplication. Possibly this new function could go into util.http...
author Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
date Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:18:41 +0000
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This module compares the memory usage reported by Lua before and after
each event and reports it to the log if it exceeds the configuration
setting `log_memory_threshold` (in bytes).

``` lua
log_memory_threshold = 20*1024
```

If you are looking to identify memory leaks, please first read [Three
kinds of memory
leaks](https://blog.nelhage.com/post/three-kinds-of-leaks/).

Prosody runs on Lua which uses automatic memory management with garbage
collection, so the numbers reported by this module are very likely to be
useless for the purpose of identifying memory leaks. Large, but
temporary, increases in memory usage can however highlight other kinds
of performance problems and sometimes even provide hits for where to
look for memory leaks.