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coinstac-storage-proxy

COINSTAC hapi plugin for securing CouchDB. Documentation.

A hapi plugin that registers HTTP endpoints to perform authentication and authorization of requests to the COINSTAC storage service (CouchDB).

This package is unused as of COINSTAC v3

Installation

# install from git
npm i --save coinstac-storage-proxy

Use:

See API documentation here.

Dependencies

h2o2 (hapi plugin)
authentication: This plugin assumes that you have set up authentiation on your hapi server already, and expects to find the user's username at request.auth.config.username to perform authorization.

const hapi = require('hapi');
const storageProxy = require('coinstac-storage-proxy');
const h2o2 = require('h2o2'); //proxy utility for hapi

const server = new hapi.Server();
server.connection(); //set up default hapi connection

server.register(
    [
        {
            register: storageProxy,
            options: { targetBaseUrl: 'http://localhost:5984'}
        },
        h2o2
    ],
    (err) => {
        if (err) {
            //something went wrong
        }
    }
);

server.start();

Configuration Options:

targetBaseUrl required sets the baseUrl for redirection.
- Must include:
  - protocol (e.g. 'http')
  - hostname (e.g. 'example.com')
- May include:
  - port (e.g. ':5984')
  - path-prefix (e.g. '/myCouchInstance') (request path will be appended)
  - querystring (e.g. '?authToken=...') (request querystring will be appended)