authentication

Documentation

Overview

Package authentication contains functions used to authenticate requests from the signed headers.

Index

• func AuthenticateHeader(publicKey string, timeSlew time.Duration, r *http.Request) util.Gerror
• func CheckHeader(userID string, r *http.Request) util.Gerror

Functions

func AuthenticateHeader

func AuthenticateHeader(publicKey string, timeSlew time.Duration, r *http.Request) util.Gerror

AuthenticateHeader authenticates the headers against the provided public key. In addition, this function supports providing a timeSlew, which is how much difference there can be between the host clock and the time in the request header.

func CheckHeader

func CheckHeader(userID string, r *http.Request) util.Gerror

CheckHeader checks the signed headers sent by the client against the expected result assembled from the request headers to verify their authorization.