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Module
HTTPAuth provides both basic and digest authentication.
To enable authentication for requests in WEBrick you will need a user database and an authenticator. To start, here's an Htpasswd database for use with a DigestAuth authenticator:
config = { :Realm => 'DigestAuth example realm' }
htpasswd = WEBrick::HTTPAuth::Htpasswd.new 'my_password_file'
htpasswd.auth_type = WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth
htpasswd.set_passwd config[:Realm], 'username', 'password'
htpasswd.flush
The :Realm is used to provide different access to different
groups across several resources on a server. Typically you'll need
only one realm for a server.
This database can be used to create an authenticator:
config[:UserDB] = htpasswd digest_auth = WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth.new config
To authenticate a request call authenticate with a request and response object in a servlet:
def do_GET req, res @authenticator.authenticate req, res end
For digest authentication the authenticator must not be created every request, it must be passed in as an option via WEBrick::HTTPServer#mount.