ofuda

HMAC authentication module for NodeJS.

Getting Started

Install the module with: npm install ofuda

Ofuda = require('ofuda');

var ofuda = new Ofuda({headerPrefix:'Amz', hash: 'sha1', serviceLabel: 'AWS', accessKeyId: '44CF9590006BF252F707', accessKeySecret: 'OtxrzxIsfpFjA7SwPzILwy8Bw21TLhquhboDYROV'});

ofuda.signHttpRequest(request); // appends a hmac authorisation header to the request

Documentation

Use as a client is illustrated below.

var http = require('http');
var Ofuda = require('ofuda');

var ofuda = new Ofuda({headerPrefix:'Amz', hash: 'sha1', serviceLabel: 'AWS', debug: true});

var credentials = {accessKeyId: '44CF9590006BF252F707', accessKeySecret: 'OtxrzxIsfpFjA7SwPzILwy8Bw21TLhquhboDYROV'};

http_options = {
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 8080,
    path: '/notify',
    method: 'PUT',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Content-MD5': 'ee930827ccb58cd846ca31af5faa3634'
    }
};

signedOptions = ofuda.signHttpRequest(credentials, http_options);

var req = http.request(signedOptions, function(res) {
    console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
    console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
});

req.write('{"some":"thing"}');
req.end();

Use as a server is as follows.

var http = require('http'),
    Ofuda = require('ofuda');


var ofuda = new Ofuda({headerPrefix:'Amz', hash: 'sha1', serviceLabel: 'AWS', debug: true});

var validateCredentials = function(requestAccessKeyId){
    return {accessKeyId: requestAccessKeyId, accessKeySecret: 'OtxrzxIsfpFjA7SwPzILwy8Bw21TLhquhboDYROV'};
}

http.createServer(function (request, response) {

    if(ofuda.validateHttpRequest(request, validateCredentials)){
        response.writeHead(200);
        response.end('Success!');
    } else {
        response.writeHead(401)
        response.end('Authorization failed!');
    }

}).listen(8080);

console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8080/');

Contributing

In lieu of a formal style guide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using grunt.

Release History

(Nothing yet)

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Mark Wolfe
Licensed under the MIT license.