module Authbasic:sig
..end
val section : Lwt_log_core.section
use Lwt_log.Section.set_level in order to debug
Module Authbasic
: Basic HTTP Authentication.
typeauth =
string -> string -> bool Lwt.t
This module implements Basic HTTP Authentication as described in RFC 2617. It can be used to add an authentication layer to sites with no built-in authentication (e.g. static files). Beware, passwords are transmitted in cleartext with this scheme, so the medium should be secured somehow (by e.g. SSL).
This module implements only the HTTP-related part of the protocol, and is meant to be extended with various authentication schemes. A very naive one (authentication with a single user/password, given in the configuration file) is provided.
val register_basic_authentication_method : (Xml.xml -> auth) -> unit
This function registers an authentication plugin: it adds a new parser to the list of available authentication schemes.
This is only applied if you are running the server with an XML configuration file. Use the realm, auth variables otherwise.
A parser takes as argument an XML tree (corresponding to the
first son of an <authbasic> element in the configuration
file) and returns an authentication function f
. f
will be
called for each request with the supplied user and password and
should return (cooperatively) a boolean telling whether access
is granted or not. Exceptions are handled the same way as for
extension parsers.
The <authbasic> element must have a realm attribute, giving some identifier to the resource which is protected (several resources on the same hostname can share the same realm). This gives a general customization scheme "for free" from the point of view of plugin developers and is totally transparent to the plugin.
val realm : string Ocsigen_server.Site.Config.key
val auth : auth Ocsigen_server.Site.Config.key
val extension : Ocsigen_server.Site.extension