Skip basicAuth for one route

Question

I'm using node, express and connect for a simple app and have basic HTTP auth implemented as follows (lots of code left out for brevity):

var express = require('express'),
connect = require('connect');

app.configure = function(){
  // other stuff...
  app.use(connect.basicAuth('username', 'password'));
  // other stuff...
};

I've tried googling and even attempted implementing my own auth, but I can't figure out how to skip this auth for just one route.

I'd really appreciate it if anyone offer any help with this?

Answer 1

If you don't want to use authentication for all routes, you should add the auth function as middleware to each individual route like so:

app.get('/mysecretpage', basicAuth, function (req, res) {
  console.log('you have to be auth to see this page');
}); 

Here is a regular route without auth:

app.get('/sample', function (req, res) {
  console.log('everybody see this page');
}); 

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