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authorKali Kaneko (leap communications) <kali@leap.se>2017-02-23 00:35:33 +0100
committerKali Kaneko (leap communications) <kali@leap.se>2017-02-24 16:20:52 +0100
commite3999c4906348dadcc85eec1df9a48e776deccd5 (patch)
tree7f8156ba80f367df22c4e823c301360706e06e8d /docs/core/index.rst
parent6b3ea883a62d40f8e2d68ce95bbefa2ac64b95de (diff)
[feature] require authentication token for api
implements a global auth token for the app. this token is written to .config/leap/authtoken, and passed to the anchor part of the landing URI when opening the index resource by the browser. - Resolves: #8765
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@@ -24,8 +24,31 @@ throught a REST API. In bitmaskd.cfg::
[services]
web = True
-API Authentication
-==================
+
+Global API Authentication
+=========================
+
+To avoid some kind of attacks, the Bitmask API is protected by a global
+authentication token.
+
+The JS API receives this value when the initial entrypoint is loaded for the
+first time, in the anchor part of the url.
+
+To authenticate any request to the API, the ``X-Bitmask-Auth`` header has to be
+added to it, set to the single value that is initialized during the bitmask
+deaemon startup::
+
+ curl -X POST http://localhost:7070/API/mail/status
+ unauthorized:bad auth token
+
+ curl -X POST http://localhost:7070/API/mail/status -H 'X-Bitmask-Auth: fae20706aa4f4f98ac0e67996787a370'
+ {"result": {"status": "on", "childrenStatus": {"smtp": {"status": "on", "error": null}, "imap": {"status": "on", "error": null}}, "error": null}, "error": null}
+
+This token can be found in ``.config/leap/authtoken``
+
+
+API Authentication (this section not implemented yet)
+======================================================
By default, the resources in the API are protected by an authentication token.