[99s-extend] cowboy client cert auth, basic auth

[Loïc Hoguin]

On 06/04/2014 10:08 PM, Daniel Goertzen wrote:
> I am having very good luck with Cowboy so far, but I have some questions:
>
> 1. There doesn't appear to be any way to do client certificate
> authorization in Cowboy, although I see there is an example for doing
> exactly that with Ranch.  I think I could modify Cowboy to do what I
> want, but I thought I would ask if there were other options before doing
> that.

Same as Ranch really, you just gotta take the socket and then call the 
ssl functions.

> 2. I am also looking at http basic auth.  Would creating a middleware to
> sit in between cowboy_router and cowboy_handler be a typical way to go
> about it?

That's a common way to do it yes.

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