Hands on tech lab

Welcome to the 86 400 tech lab!

About

A simple express project with an endpoint that requires an implementation of a Basic Authentication validation for incoming HTTP calls.

The definition of the Basic Authentication scheme is that a value in the format of Basic <credentials> is passed as the value to the authorization header of a request. Where credentials is in the format of a base 64 encoded string using the values of the username and password joined using the : character. The username and password can not contain the : character and the header value must start with the word Basic.

In this exercise, implement the functionality to authorise a request based on whether a request contains a valid users credentials based on the list of users as defined in src/userLogins.ts. If the credentials are invalid then the response is expected to return a HTTP status with 401.

An example header could look like:

authorization: Basic bWF0dEBnbWFpbC5jb206dGhpcyBpcyBhIHZAbGlkIHBhc3N3b3JkIQ==

Getting started

• Run npm install
• Run npm run test
• Check tests that are failing and trouble shoot what needs to be fixed in the application code