STstevelacy·Sep 14, 2016Submission
Doorman: A http proxy that authenticates via OAuth
5 points · Open discussionmovableink
doorman
JavaScript2012–2016
movableink / doorman · Archived
doorman
HTTP Proxy + OAuth
3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
166GitHub stars
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HTTP Proxy + OAuth
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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3 sourcesI've been looking at OAuth a bit lately.
I'm amazed there is no open-source, drop-in HTTP proxy to authorise access to REST APIs. The closest I've found is PingFederate, which is kind of expensive, and DoorMan[1], which seems incomplete and unmaintained.
Am I the only person who'd find this useful? What are other people doing - building it into their APIs?
[1] https://github.com/movableink/doorman
In Our love-hate relationship with OAuthThis is really cool. I wanted something like this a while back, and began looking into implementing it for nginx. But one of the services used websockets, so I ended up building a node.js app that combined everyauth (oauth for about 50 different web services) with node-http-proxy. We released it as Doorman:
https://github.com/movableink/doorman
The one problem that I've had with it is many oauth providers only allow you to specify one allowed redirect URL per app. So it makes it difficult to run a single doorman instance for multiple services.
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