mod_auth_http_async

Introduction

This is an experimental authentication module that does an asynchronous HTTP call to verify username and password.

Details

When a user attempts to authenticate to Prosody, this module takes the username and password and does a HTTP GET request with Basic authentication to the configured http_auth_url.

Configuration

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

Compatibility

Requires Prosody trunk

Installation

With the plugin installer in Prosody 0.12 you can use:

sudo prosodyctl install --server=https://modules.prosody.im/rocks/ mod_auth_http_async

For earlier versions see the documentation for installing 3rd party modules

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