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blanket basic auth middleware
https://github.com/koajs/basic-auth

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# koa-basic-auth [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/koajs/basic-auth.png)](https://travis-ci.org/koajs/basic-auth)

Add simple "blanket" basic auth with username / password. If you require
anything more specific just use the [basic-auth](https://github.com/visionmedia/node-basic-auth) module.

**v4.x+ Breaking Change:** This package no longer requires both a username and a password. Either or is supported, see [#39](https://github.com/jshttp/basic-auth/issues/39) for more insight.

## Installation

```js
$ npm install koa-basic-auth
```

## Example

Password protect downstream middleware:

```js
const auth = require('koa-basic-auth');
const Koa = require('koa');
const app = new Koa();

// custom 401 handling
app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
try {
await next();
} catch (err) {
if (401 == err.status) {
ctx.status = 401;
ctx.set('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic');
ctx.body = 'cant haz that';
} else {
throw err;
}
}
});

// require auth
app.use(auth({ name: 'tj', pass: 'tobi' }));

// secret response
app.use(async (ctx) => {
ctx.body = 'secret';
});

app.listen(3000, function () {
console.log('listening on port 3000');
});
```

Example request:

$ curl -H "Authorization: basic dGo6dG9iaQ==" http://localhost:3000/ -i
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: koa
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 6
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:35:17 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

secret

Using the [mount](https://github.com/koajs/mount) middleware you may specify auth for a given prefix:

```js
const mount = require('koa-mount');
const auth = require('koa-basic-auth');

app.use(mount('/admin', auth({ name: 'tobi', pass: 'ferret' })));
```

## License

MIT