Happstack.Server.Auth

Support for basic access authentication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication

Documentation

basicAuth

Arguments

:: Happstack m

=> String

the realm name

-> Map String String

the username password map

-> m a

the part to guard

-> m a

A simple HTTP basic authentication guard.

If authentication fails, this part will call mzero.

example:

main = simpleHTTP nullConf $ 
 msum [ basicAuth "127.0.0.1" (fromList [("happstack","rocks")]) $ ok "You are in the secret club"
      , ok "You are not in the secret club." 
      ]

basicAuthBy

Arguments

:: Happstack m

=> (ByteString -> ByteString -> Bool)

function that returns true if the name password combination is valid

-> String

the realm name

-> m a

the part to guard

-> m a

Generalized version of basicAuth.

The function that checks the username password combination must be supplied as first argument.

example:

main = simpleHTTP nullConf $
 msum [ basicAuth' (validLoginPlaintext (fromList [("happstack","rocks")])) "127.0.0.1" $ ok "You are in the secret club"
      , ok "You are not in the secret club."
      ]

validLoginPlaintext

Arguments

:: Map String String

the username password map

-> ByteString

the username

-> ByteString

the password

-> Bool

Function that looks up the plain text password for username in a Map and returns True if it matches with the given password.