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various: Use 0.12+ API for serving files from the file system over HTTP Using mod_http_files this way is deprecated. Having the base behavior in a separate module makes it easier to have a specialized module with coherent behavior that does not do things when not explicitly enabled.
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3 - Stage-Alpha
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4 ...
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6 Introduction
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7 ============
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9 This is an experimental authentication module that does an asynchronous
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10 HTTP call to verify username and password.
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12 This is a (possibly temporary) fork of mod_http_auth_async that adds
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13 support for authentication using a cookie and SASL EXTERNAL.
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15 Details
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16 =======
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18 When a user attempts to authenticate to Prosody, this module takes the
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19 username and password and does a HTTP GET request with [Basic
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20 authentication][rfc7617] to the configured `http_auth_url`.
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22 Configuration
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23 =============
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25 ``` lua
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26 VirtualHost "example.com"
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27 authentication = "http_auth_cookie"
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28 http_auth_url = "http://example.com/auth"
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29 http_cookie_auth_url = "https://example.com/testcookie.php?user=$user"
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30 ```
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32 Cookie Authentication
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33 =====================
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35 It is possible to link authentication to an existing web application. This
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36 has the benefit that the user logging into the web application in their
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37 browser will automatically log them into their XMPP account.
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39 There are some prerequisites for this to work:
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41 - The BOSH or Websocket requests must include the application's cookie in
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42 the headers sent to Prosody. This typically means the web chat code needs
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43 to be served from the same domain as the web application.
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46 a valid cookie, and returns a different status code if the cookie is invalid
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47 or not currently logged in.
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50 returned in the 200 response from the web application.
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52 Set `http_cookie_auth_url` to the web application URL that is used to check the
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53 cookie. You may use the variables `$host` for the XMPP host and `$user` for the
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54 XMPP username.
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56 If the `$user` variable is included in the URL, the client must provide the username
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57 via the "authzid" in the SASL EXTERNAL authentication mechanism.
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59 If the `$user` variable is *not* included in the URL, Prosody expects the web application's response to be the username instead, as UTF-8 text/plain.
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61 Compatibility
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62 =============
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64 Requires Prosody trunk