BasicAuth

Basic Authentication middleware for Fiber that provides an HTTP basic authentication. It calls the next handler for valid credentials and 401 Unauthorized or a custom response for missing or invalid credentials.

Table of Contents

• Signatures
• Examples
• Config
• Default Config

Signatures

func New(config Config) fiber.Handler

Examples

Import the middleware package that is part of the Fiber web framework

import (
  "github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
  "github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2/middleware/basicauth"
)

After you initiate your Fiber app, you can use the following possibilities:

// Provide a minimal config
app.Use(basicauth.New(basicauth.Config{
    Users: map[string]string{
        "john":  "doe",
        "admin": "123456",
    },
}))
// Or extend your config for customization
app.Use(basicauth.New(basicauth.Config{
    Users: map[string]string{
        "john":  "doe",
        "admin": "123456",
    },
    Realm: "Forbidden",
    Authorizer: func(user, pass string) bool {
        if user == "john" && pass == "doe" {
            return true
        }
        if user == "admin" && pass == "123456" {
            return true
        }
        return false
    },
    Unauthorized: func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
        return c.SendFile("./unauthorized.html")
    },
    ContextUsername: "_user",
    ContextPassword: "_pass",
}))

Config

// Config defines the config for middleware.
type Config struct {
    // Next defines a function to skip this middleware when returned true.
    //
    // Optional. Default: nil
    Next func(c *fiber.Ctx) bool
    // Users defines the allowed credentials
    //
    // Required. Default: map[string]string{}
    Users map[string]string
    // Realm is a string to define realm attribute of BasicAuth.
    // the realm identifies the system to authenticate against
    // and can be used by clients to save credentials
    //
    // Optional. Default: "Restricted".
    Realm string
    // Authorizer defines a function you can pass
    // to check the credentials however you want.
    // It will be called with a username and password
    // and is expected to return true or false to indicate
    // that the credentials were approved or not.
    //
    // Optional. Default: nil.
    Authorizer func(string, string) bool
    // Unauthorized defines the response body for unauthorized responses.
    // By default it will return with a 401 Unauthorized and the correct WWW-Auth header
    //
    // Optional. Default: nil
    Unauthorized fiber.Handler
    // ContextUser is the key to store the username in Locals
    //
    // Optional. Default: "username"
    ContextUsername string
    // ContextPass is the key to store the password in Locals
    //
    // Optional. Default: "password"
    ContextPassword string
}

Default Config

var ConfigDefault = Config{
    Next:            nil,
    Users:           map[string]string{},
    Realm:           "Restricted",
    Authorizer:      nil,
    Unauthorized:    nil,
    ContextUsername: "username",
    ContextPassword: "password",
}