knox

When I have a simple app send a password to the server, I like to generate a hash on the client side and then rehash again on the server for storing. As far as APIs, the good ones will hash your secret key together along with other data unique to your HTTP request, in particular the headers and the datetime. This is a good idea because: 1. you are not sending your secret key in clear text 2. it makes it difficult for a man-in-the-middle attack because they cannot just take your hash from one of your requests since it will be invalid after received or if some time has elapsed. For an example, see how Knox sets up requests for Amazon AWS: https://github.com/LearnBoost/knox

Could someone please enlighten me on how to connect both a readable and a writable stream. For example I want to convert an image and then stream it to S3. if I use knox https://github.com/LearnBoost/knox it has a way to read a stream from a file and then publish to s3. But how can you take a stream from http://aheckmann.github.com/gm/ and stream it directly to knox or anything else for that matter?

We use a whole bunch, some of the main ones: - async => helpful async library https://github.com/caolan/async - nodeinspector => node js debugging in a nice webkit UI https://github.com/dannycoates/node-inspector - riakjs => for talking to Riak: http://riakjs.org/ - knox => S3 helper https://github.com/LearnBoost/knox - optimist => helper lib for writing command line node apps (no more bash :) https://github.com/substack/node-optimist - mocha => unit testing node code https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha - emailjs => email helper https://github.com/eleith/emailjs - uglifyjs => code minification https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS

On a related note, if you just want something tiny to interact with s3, check out Knox (https://github.com/LearnBoost/knox). I used it on a recent project and it was very easy with a clean API.

Awesome, There is also knox: https://github.com/LearnBoost/knox Both look similar. Any quick commentary on where you plan on taking your s3 lib (features etc..) ?