I'm trying to add basic authentication to my app using the express-basic-auth. I'm following the instructions on this page, which also says "If a request is found to not be authorized, it will respond with HTTP 401" but my app simply replies with status code 200 when I do not pass any credentials
It seems I've incorrectly configured express-basic-auth. What have I done wrong?
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const port = 3001
const basicAuth = require('express-basic-auth')
app.use(basicAuth({
users: { 'admin': 'supersecret' },
}))
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
res.send('Hello World!')
})
app.listen(port, () => {
console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:${port}`)
})
Your code works. I confirmed with a nodejs client app that the basic auth works when given the right username and password and gives back a 401 when not given the right username and password or given no username and password.
The likely explanation is that you're not actually running your latest code and there's some previous server still running that doesn't require the basic auth.
You can verify that you are hitting the right server by adding
app.use((req, res, next) => {
console.log("got new server");
next();
});
before your basic auth middleware and verify that you see this log in the server console when you try your request. If you don't see this new log in the console, then you aren't hitting the newest code.
Goal: close server when client emits message.
I can confirm client sends response as it logs: 'hit server
Server code for express is:
io.on('connection', (socket) => {
console.log('this is connected');
socket.on('message', function(data){
console.log('hit server');
server.close();
})
});
io.on('error', function() {
console.log('there is an error');
})
server.listen(3000, () => {
console.log('listen on *:3000');
});
To stop an Express server that you're using socket.io with, you first call:
server.close();
That stops it from accepting new http connections. You can then iterate existing socket.io connections and close each of them:
const sockets = await io.fetchSockets();
for (let socket of sockets) {
socket.disconnect(true);
}
This could, in theory, leave a few regular http connections that are still in process, but will eventually complete or timeout.
server.getConnections(callback)
will tell you if there are any more outstanding connections or not.
If you just want to shut everything down, including your app, you can call:
process.exit()
I have an Apache webserver with a valid SSL certificate. It runs my web application on it. Let's call it Server A.
Then I have a second server running a Node-Js server with a valid SSL certificate. There also socket.IO runs. And this one we call Server B.
A client requests the web application at server A and gets the desired page displayed. If the page is set up at the client, a connection to server B is established via websockets. If another client should change something on the page, it will be adapted for all currently connected clients.
Websockets work as desired. As long as the page is accessed via a computer browser.
If I now go to the website with my smartphone (Iphone 7) via Safari or Chrome (WLAN), no connection to the websocket server (Server B) is established.
Then I set up a small websocket example on http without encryption.
There the websockets work on the smartphone browser.
I hope I could describe my problem understandably. I am very grateful for hints, examples or similar.
// This script run on my Server
const fs = require('fs');
const server = require('https').createServer({
key: fs.readFileSync('myserver.key', 'utf8'),
cert: fs.readFileSync('myserver.cer', 'utf8'),
passphrase: ''
});
let io = require('socket.io')(server);
server.listen(3003);
io.on('connection', function (socket) {
console.log("User Connected connect " + socket.id);
socket.on('disconnect', function () {
console.log("User has close the browser " + socket.id);
});
socket.on('feedback', function (data) {
io.sockets.emit('feedback', data);
});
});
// On Clientsite
socket = io.connect('wss://adressOfServer:3003', {
// secure: true,
transports: ['websocket'],
upgrade: false,
rejectUnauthorized: false
//Here I have already tried many combinations
});
socket.on('connect_error', function (error) {
// alert(error);
});
I have following code called when loading the page:
var resourceRequest = new WLResourceRequest(
"adapters/adapter-name/rest/init/" + timeStamp,
WLResourceRequest.GET
);
However it returns error in my console:
GET http://localhost:10080/project-name/adapters/adapter-name/rest/init/0 404
(Not Found)
While this code works:
function wlEnvInit() {
console.log("CONNECTING 1111");
WL.Client.connect({c
onSuccess: function(){
console.log("CONNECTED 2222");
},
onFailure: function(error) {
console.log("ERROR IN CONNECTION");
console.log(error);
}
});
}
How to troubleshoot this?
Make sure the adapter is really deployed by visiting the console
Make sure that your application is pointing to an IP address of the host machine where the MobileFirst Server is deployed to
Make sure your adapter call is correct
Example calling:
Client side:https://github.com/MobileFirst-Platform-Developer-Center/ResourceRequestCordova/blob/release80/www/js/index.js#L54
Server side: https://github.com/MobileFirst-Platform-Developer-Center/Adapters/blob/release80/JavaAdapter/src/main/java/com/sample/adapter/JavaAdapterResource.java#L25
I am trying to use Socket.IO in Node.js, and am trying to allow the server to give an identity to each of the Socket.IO clients. As the socket code is outside the scope of the http server code, it doesn't have easy access to the request information sent, so I'm assuming it will need to be sent up during the connection. What is the best way to
1) get the information to the server about who is connecting via Socket.IO
2) authenticate who they say they are (I'm currently using Express, if that makes things any easier)
Use connect-redis and have redis as your session store for all authenticated users. Make sure on authentication you send the key (normally req.sessionID) to the client. Have the client store this key in a cookie.
On socket connect (or anytime later) fetch this key from the cookie and send it back to the server. Fetch the session information in redis using this key. (GET key)
Eg:
Server side (with redis as session store):
req.session.regenerate...
res.send({rediskey: req.sessionID});
Client side:
//store the key in a cookie
SetCookie('rediskey', <%= rediskey %>); //http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533693(v=vs.85).aspx
//then when socket is connected, fetch the rediskey from the document.cookie and send it back to server
var socket = new io.Socket();
socket.on('connect', function() {
var rediskey = GetCookie('rediskey'); //http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533693(v=vs.85).aspx
socket.send({rediskey: rediskey});
});
Server side:
//in io.on('connection')
io.on('connection', function(client) {
client.on('message', function(message) {
if(message.rediskey) {
//fetch session info from redis
redisclient.get(message.rediskey, function(e, c) {
client.user_logged_in = c.username;
});
}
});
});
I also liked the way pusherapp does private channels.
A unique socket id is generated and
sent to the browser by Pusher. This is
sent to your application (1) via an
AJAX request which authorizes the user
to access the channel against your
existing authentication system. If
successful your application returns an
authorization string to the browser
signed with you Pusher secret. This is
sent to Pusher over the WebSocket,
which completes the authorization (2)
if the authorization string matches.
Because also socket.io has unique socket_id for every socket.
socket.on('connect', function() {
console.log(socket.transport.sessionid);
});
They used signed authorization strings to authorize users.
I haven't yet mirrored this to socket.io, but I think it could be pretty interesting concept.
I know this is bit old, but for future readers in addition to the approach of parsing cookie and retrieving the session from the storage (eg. passport.socketio ) you might also consider a token based approach.
In this example I use JSON Web Tokens which are pretty standard. You have to give to the client page the token, in this example imagine an authentication endpoint that returns JWT:
var jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');
// other requires
app.post('/login', function (req, res) {
// TODO: validate the actual user user
var profile = {
first_name: 'John',
last_name: 'Doe',
email: 'john#doe.com',
id: 123
};
// we are sending the profile in the token
var token = jwt.sign(profile, jwtSecret, { expiresInMinutes: 60*5 });
res.json({token: token});
});
Now, your socket.io server can be configured as follows:
var socketioJwt = require('socketio-jwt');
var sio = socketIo.listen(server);
sio.set('authorization', socketioJwt.authorize({
secret: jwtSecret,
handshake: true
}));
sio.sockets
.on('connection', function (socket) {
console.log(socket.handshake.decoded_token.email, 'has joined');
//socket.on('event');
});
The socket.io-jwt middleware expects the token in a query string, so from the client you only have to attach it when connecting:
var socket = io.connect('', {
query: 'token=' + token
});
I wrote a more detailed explanation about this method and cookies here.
Here is my attempt to have the following working:
express: 4.14
socket.io: 1.5
passport (using sessions): 0.3
redis: 2.6 (Really fast data structure to handle sessions; but you can use others like MongoDB too. However, I encourage you to use this for session data + MongoDB to store other persistent data like Users)
Since you might want to add some API requests as well, we'll also use http package to have both HTTP and Web socket working in the same port.
server.js
The following extract only includes everything you need to set the previous technologies up. You can see the complete server.js version which I used in one of my projects here.
import http from 'http';
import express from 'express';
import passport from 'passport';
import { createClient as createRedisClient } from 'redis';
import connectRedis from 'connect-redis';
import Socketio from 'socket.io';
// Your own socket handler file, it's optional. Explained below.
import socketConnectionHandler from './sockets';
// Configuration about your Redis session data structure.
const redisClient = createRedisClient();
const RedisStore = connectRedis(Session);
const dbSession = new RedisStore({
client: redisClient,
host: 'localhost',
port: 27017,
prefix: 'stackoverflow_',
disableTTL: true
});
// Let's configure Express to use our Redis storage to handle
// sessions as well. You'll probably want Express to handle your
// sessions as well and share the same storage as your socket.io
// does (i.e. for handling AJAX logins).
const session = Session({
resave: true,
saveUninitialized: true,
key: 'SID', // this will be used for the session cookie identifier
secret: 'secret key',
store: dbSession
});
app.use(session);
// Let's initialize passport by using their middlewares, which do
//everything pretty much automatically. (you have to configure login
// / register strategies on your own though (see reference 1)
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());
// Socket.IO
const io = Socketio(server);
io.use((socket, next) => {
session(socket.handshake, {}, next);
});
io.on('connection', socketConnectionHandler);
// socket.io is ready; remember that ^this^ variable is just the
// name that we gave to our own socket.io handler file (explained
// just after this).
// Start server. This will start both socket.io and our optional
// AJAX API in the given port.
const port = 3000; // Move this onto an environment variable,
// it'll look more professional.
server.listen(port);
console.info(`🌐 API listening on port ${port}`);
console.info(`🗲 Socket listening on port ${port}`);
sockets/index.js
Our socketConnectionHandler, I just don't like putting everything inside server.js (even though you perfectly could), especially since this file can end up containing quite a lot of code pretty quickly.
export default function connectionHandler(socket) {
const userId = socket.handshake.session.passport &&
socket.handshake.session.passport.user;
// If the user is not logged in, you might find ^this^
// socket.handshake.session.passport variable undefined.
// Give the user a warm welcome.
console.info(`⚡︎ New connection: ${userId}`);
socket.emit('Grettings', `Grettings ${userId}`);
// Handle disconnection.
socket.on('disconnect', () => {
if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
console.info(`⚡︎ Disconnection: ${userId}`);
}
});
}
Extra material (client):
Just a very basic version of what the JavaScript socket.io client could be:
import io from 'socket.io-client';
const socketPath = '/socket.io'; // <- Default path.
// But you could configure your server
// to something like /api/socket.io
const socket = io.connect('localhost:3000', { path: socketPath });
socket.on('connect', () => {
console.info('Connected');
socket.on('Grettings', (data) => {
console.info(`Server gretting: ${data}`);
});
});
socket.on('connect_error', (error) => {
console.error(`Connection error: ${error}`);
});
References:
I just couldn't reference inside the code, so I moved it here.
1: How to set up your Passport strategies: https://scotch.io/tutorials/easy-node-authentication-setup-and-local#handling-signupregistration
This article (http://simplapi.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/php-and-node-js-session-share-redi/) shows how to
store sessions of the HTTP server in Redis (using Predis)
get these sessions from Redis in node.js by the session id sent in a cookie
Using this code you are able to get them in socket.io, too.
var io = require('socket.io').listen(8081);
var cookie = require('cookie');
var redis = require('redis'), client = redis.createClient();
io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
var cookies = cookie.parse(socket.handshake.headers['cookie']);
console.log(cookies.PHPSESSID);
client.get('sessions/' + cookies.PHPSESSID, function(err, reply) {
console.log(JSON.parse(reply));
});
});
use session and Redis between c/s
Server side
io.use(function(socket, next) {
// get here session id
console.log(socket.handshake.headers.cookie); and match from redis session data
next();
});
this should do it
//server side
io.sockets.on('connection', function (con) {
console.log(con.id)
})
//client side
var io = io.connect('http://...')
console.log(io.sessionid)