passport-sessiontoken v0.1.1

passport-sessiontoken

A Passport strategy based on passport-localapikey.

What changed?

• Now also looks in headers for the token.
• Custom token title

Installation

$ npm install passport-sessiontoken

Usage

Define Strategy

passport.use(new SessionStrategy(
    function(apikey, done) {
        User.findOne({ apikey: apikey }, function (err, user) {
            if (err) { return done(err); }
            if (!user) { return done(null, false); }
            return done(null, user);
        });
    }, {header: 'customHeader', field: 'customField'}
));

Authenticate in request

app.post('/api/authenticate', 
    passport.authenticate('sessiontoken', { session: false,failureRedirect: '/api/unauthorized' }),
    function(req, res) {
        res.json({ message: "Authenticated" })
    }
);

Default fields

• header: x-token
• Body & Query: token

Field order

• Header
• Body
• Query (Not recommented)

Credits

• AtlasDev

Licence

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Dany Sluijk

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