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3 - Stage-Alpha
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6 Introduction
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7 ============
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9 This is an authentication module that does an asynchronous
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10 HTTP call to verify username and password.
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12 Details
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13 =======
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15 When a user attempts to authenticate to Prosody, this module takes the
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16 username and password and does a HTTP GET request with [Basic
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17 authentication][rfc7617] to the configured `http_auth_url`.
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19 Configuration
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20 =============
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22 After installing, enable the module by setting `authentication` to `"http_async"`.
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24 The only setting is `http_auth_url` which should contain the URL endpoint where the authentication query is sent to. It can contain `$host` and
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25 `$user` which are substituted for the current VirtualHost and the authenticating username, respectively.
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27 ``` lua
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28 VirtualHost "example.com"
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29 authentication = "http_async"
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30 http_auth_url = "http://example.com/auth"
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31 ```
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33 Compatibility
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34 =============
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36 Should work with Prosody 0.10.x and later.