NOT CURRENTLY MAINTAINED AS KONG HAS CHANGED SINCE < V1.0.0

Kong Upstream HTTP Basic Authentication (upstream-auth-basic)

Kong Plugin to add HTTP Basic Authentication to the upstream request header.

Installation

  1. The LuaRocks package manager must be Installed.
  2. Kong must be Installed and you must be familiar with using and configuring Kong.
  3. Install the module kong-plugin-upstream-auth-basic. 
    luarocks install kong-plugin-upstream-auth-basic
  4. Add the custom plugin to the kong.conf file (e.g. /etc/kong/kong.conf) 
    custom_plugins = ...,upstream-auth-basic
  5. Restart kong

Plugin Fields

The plugin accepts the following fields.

Name Type Required Description
username text true The username to send in the Authorization header to the upstream service
password text false The password to send in the Authorization header to the upstream service

License

Copyright 2017-18 Revolution Systems Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.