Simple HTTP Basic Authentication Web Server.
Provides a simple web server that acts as an authentication server, mostly for development purposes. This is the Go version. There is also a Python version.
To avoid re-implementation of user authentication based on user/password scheme, application could delegate this to a web server using HTTP Basic Authentication. This abstracts away authentications details. Application just need an appropriate URI to configure authentication.
This simple web server is for development purposes. It provides a web server that authenticates all access to any ressource (identified by a path):
- If there is no user name and password given, it returns 401 (Authentication required).
- If the user name or the password is an empty string, it returns 403 (Forbidden).
- If the user name starts with a
x, it returns 403 (Forbidden). - If the user name starts with a
qand the password is different to the user name, it returns 403 (Forbidden). - Otherwise it returns 200 (OK)
The server listens on port 9876. This can changed by using the -p command
line parameter, eg. ./go-auth-s -p 1234 for listening on port 1234.
My students are encouraged to use this server. A simple motivation is given by my blog post HTTP Basic Auth als Infrastruktur zur Authentifizierung (in german).