Nodejs Firewall

Unobtrusively handles security based on roles (authorization) plus authentication initialization.

Documentation is available on read the docs.

Installation

Node

npm install node-firewall

Usage

Configuring the firewall.

var firewall = require('node-firewall');
    
var fw = new firewall.Firewall('fw.main', '^/');

// allow non authenticated users to access the login page
fw.add('^/login', null);

// secure admin area
fw.add('^/admin', ['role', 'admin']);

// all other urls require user role
fw.add('^/', ['role', 'user']);

// add our new firewall to the map
firewall.map.add(fw);

Enabling the middleware

// init firewall middleware
firewall.use(app);

Changelog

• 0.1.2
  • Improve firewall log system
• 0.1.3
  • Fix FirewallMap.get when trying to retrieve a non existent firewall
  • Improve doc blocks
• 0.1.4
  • Improve documentation
  • Add ability to filter firewall rules based on request http method
  • Add Firewall.dump() method
• 0.1.5
  • Add authentication handler
  • Add default handlers to firewall
• 0.1.6
  • Fix problem with middleware
• 0.2.0
  • Add strategies on firewall to ease addition of custom rules
  • Removed Firewall.dump because of strategy support
• 0.2.1
  • Add a way to configure map from json object with custom strategies
• 0.2.2
  • Fix issue #1
  • Add debug on namespace node-firewall:map and node-firewall:firewall
  • debug method and flags was removed
  • No default success handler
  • Callback next is called by default if no success handler is configured
  • 'use strict' on all modules

Credits

Raphaël Benitte

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2014 Raphaël Benitte <http://rbenitte.com/>