Question

I am using Passport-Local (https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-local) to authenticate with node.js. So far this example works like a charm, since the users are logging in thorugh a post-webform:

app.post('/login', 
    passport.authenticate('local', { failureRedirect: '/login', failureFlash: true }),
    function(req, res) {
        res.redirect('/');
});

Now, however, I want to code up a JSON-based API to authenticate users by calling a particular URL. Modifying the code block to app.get(… doesn’t work though.

Any advice?

Answer 1

I ran into this same problem, and solved it by adding this to my route handler for login:

req.body = req.query;

Maybe not the perfect solution, but it’s certainly better than hacking passport. 😉

Also note that there’s a pending request in passport-local to fix this problem: https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-local/pull/12