bridgit

bridgit is a proxy server intend to forward http request to a server with authentication.

Support different authentication protocol. (hawk for now)

Installation

npm install -g bridgit

Commands

hawk

Simply use follow command to start the proxy server for hawk authentication.

bridgit hawk

Initially, the proxy server would intercept request from http://127.0.0.1:3000, encrypt the request with hawk, add the authentication artifact in request header as Authorization, and foward it to the same uri at http://127.0.0.1:8000.

So you can call your RESTful API at http://127.0.0.1:3000/your_api_uri now.

There are several options you can use to customize the proxy server:

bridgit hawk
    [-o, --origin=] # origin to forward
    [-p, --port=] # server port for bridgit to listen on
    [-P, --prefix=] # auth header prefix
    [-i, --id=] # hawk credentials id
    [-k, --key=] # hawk crendentials key
    [-a, --algorithm=] # hawk algorithm
    [-E, --encrypt-payload=] # should include payload when encrypt
    [-c, --config=] # With a specified config file path

You can also use bridgit hawk --help to view available options.

Here are some usage examples:

Use with options

bridgit hawk -i your_id -k your_key -o http://www.google.com

Will start hawk server with your_id and your_key, then proxy request to http://www.google.com.

Use with config file

bridgit hawk -c ~/config.json

Will load ~/config.json as your configuration, and keep global config as defaults.

NOTE: the config file you are using is considered in JSON format, please ensure that.

config

From 1.1.0, default configuration file will be generated under your $HOME directory, named .bridgit.json.

set/get global configurations

bridgit config set <key> <value> or bridgit config get <key>

Here key can be any support option in proxy server command (like hawk).

bridgit config set id your_id # store your_id as id in config file
bridgit config set port 4000 # store 4000 as port in config file
bridgit config get port # print current port config
bridgit config get # print all key-values in config file

NOTE: You should only use fullname for options to set config, shortland name will not take effect.

PS: The options' priority is higher than config file. For example:

bridgit config set id id_config
bridgit hawk --id=id_option

Will result in proxy server using id_options as hawk id.

generate an empty config file

bridgit config new ~/your_config.json

Will create a new empty config file @~/your_config.json.

Todo

• Test cases coverage
• Support OAuth2