Friend: an extensible authentication and authorization library for Clojure Ring webapps and services

[Chas Emerick]

For your consideration, a new library:

I’m hoping this can eventually be a warden/spring-security/everyauth /omniauth for Clojure; that is, a common abstraction for authentication and authorization mechanisms.  Clojure has been around long enough that adding pedestrian things like form and HTTP Basic and $AUTH_METHOD_HERE to a Ring application should be easy.  Right now, it’s not: either you’re pasting together a bunch of different libraries that don’t necessarily compose well together, or you get drawn into shaving the authentication and authorization yaks for the fifth time in your life so you can sleep well at night.

Hopefully Friend will make this a solved problem, or at least push things in that direction.

Read more here: http://wp.me/p10OJi-d6

Cheers,

- Chas

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[David Jagoe]

Looks good! Thank you.

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