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mod_http_oauth2: Rescope oauth client config into users' storage This produces client_id of the form owner@host/random and prevents clients from being deleted by registering an account with the same name and then deleting the account, as well as having the client automatically be deleted when the owner account is removed. On one hand, this leaks the bare JID of the creator to users. On the other hand, it makes it obvious who made the oauth application. This module is experimental and only for developers, so this can be changed if a better method comes up.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Sat, 21 Nov 2020 23:55:10 +0100
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labels:
- Stage-Alpha
summary: "Authenticate users against an external HTTP API"
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# Overview

This authentication module allows Prosody to authenticate users against
an external HTTP service.

# Configuration

``` lua
VirtualHost "example.com"
  authentication = "http"
  http_auth_url = "http://example.com/auth"
```

If the API requires Prosody to authenticate, you can provide static
credentials using HTTP Basic authentication, like so:

```
http_auth_credentials = "prosody:secret-password"
```

# Developers

This section contains information for developers who wish to implement a
HTTP service that Prosody can use for authentication.

## Protocol

Prosody will make a HTTP request to the configured API URL with an
appended `/METHOD` where `METHOD` is one of the methods described below.

GET methods must expect a series of URL-encoded query parameters, while
POST requests will receive an URL-encoded form (i.e.
`application/x-www-form-urlencoded`).

## Parameters

user
: The username, e.g. `stephanie` for the JID `stephanie@example.com`.

server
: The host part of the user's JID, e.g. `example.com` for the JID
  `stephanie@example.com`.

pass
: For methods that verify or set a user's password, the password will
  be supplied in this parameter, otherwise it is not set.

## Methods

The only mandatory methods that the service must implement are `check_password`
and `user_exists`. Unsupported methods should return a HTTP status code
of `501 Not Implemented`, but other error codes will also be handled by
Prosody.

### register

**HTTP method:**
: POST

**Success codes:**
: 201

**Error codes:**
: 409 (user exists)

### check_password

**HTTP method:**
: GET

**Success codes:**
: 200

**Response:**
: A text string of `true` if the user exists, or `false` otherwise.

### user_exists

**HTTP method:**
: GET

**Success codes:**
: 200

**Response:**
: A text string of `true` if the user exists, or `false` otherwise.

### set_password

**HTTP method:**
: POST

**Success codes:**
: 200, 201, or 204

### remove_user

**HTTP method:**
: POST

**Success codes:**
: 200, 201 or 204

## Examples

With the following configuration:

```
authentication = "http"
http_auth_url = "https://auth.example.net/api"

If a user connects and tries to log in to Prosody as "romeo@example.net"
with the password "iheartjuliet", Prosody would make the following HTTP
request:

```
https://auth.example.net/api/check_password?user=romeo&server=example.net&pass=iheartjuliet
```

# Compatibility

Requires Prosody 0.11.0 or later.