Oh, and don't forget the semi-colons : )

On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 5:24:04 AM UTC, Tim Oxley wrote:
>
> Hey simon :D So I have my own 'bouncy', but I think you're on the right 
> track, I should just figure out how bouncy works, or just use bouncy.
>  
>
> On Monday, 3 June 2013 16:04:20 UTC+8, Simon wrote:
>>
>> Hey Tim!
>>
>> Sounds like what you're after is Substack's Bouncy: 
>> https://github.com/substack/bouncy
>>
>> I believe it will extract the HTTP headers from the raw TCP stream (which 
>> you can use for authentication), then "bounce" the raw stream to another 
>> TCP socket or remote endpoint.
>>
>> From the docs:
>> "`bounce(stream, opts={})` Call this function when you're ready to bounce 
>> the request to a stream. The exact request that was received will be 
>> written to stream and future incoming data will be piped to and from it."
>>
>> I would inspect the headers and then either bounce to a local HTTP server 
>> that sends 401/403 or else bounce to the "actual" HTTP servers if 
>> authenticated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, June 2, 2013 4:57:40 AM UTC, Tim Oxley wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to use a module like 
>>> http-auth<https://github.com/gevorg/http-auth/> to 
>>> centrally auth HTTP traffic before piping it along to "actual" HTTP servers 
>>> via TCP stream.
>>>
>>> Ideally, I could do something like:
>>>
>>> net.createServer(function(sock) {
>>>    sock.pipe(httpAuth).pipe(remoteHTTP) *// thus remoteHTTP's traffic is 
>>> always authenticated*
>>> }).listen(9798)
>>>  
>>> var remoteHTTP = net.connect(6788)* // some HTTP service*
>>>
>>> But the problem is http-auth expects to be passed a req, res:
>>>
>>> var auth = require('http-auth')var basic = auth({
>>>     authRealm : "Private area.",
>>>     authList : ['mia:{SHA}x511ncXd+4fOnYAotcGPFD0peYo=']});
>>> http.createServer(function(req, res) {
>>>     // Apply authentication to server.
>>>     basic.apply(req, res, function(username) {
>>>         // Your request handling logic goes there
>>>         res.end("Welcome to private area - " + username + "!");
>>>     });}).listen(1337);
>>>
>>> Is there any way to convert a net stream into a format that could be 
>>> handled by something like http-auth? Or another way to do http digest auth 
>>> without interrupting the streams?
>>>
>>

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