HTTP Basic Authentication with Express 4 using the http-auth module

app.js

var express = require('express'),
    auth = require('http-auth');

// Configure basic auth
var basic = auth.basic({
    realm: 'SUPER SECRET STUFF'
}, function(username, password, callback) {
    callback(username == 'admin' && password == 'f00lpr00f');
});

// Set up express app
var app = express();

// Create middleware that can be used to protect routes with basic auth
var authMiddleware = auth.connect(basic);

// Configure an unprotected route 
app.get('/', function(request, response) {
    response.send('This is the secret route: <a href="/secret">shhhhhhh!</a>');
});

// Protected route
app.get('/secret', authMiddleware, function(request, response) {
    response.send('you made it!');
});

app.listen(3000);

I'm using this code but even typing the correct user/pass it keep asking me again.

'use strict';

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var auth = require('http-auth');

var basic = auth.basic({
  realm: 'SUPER SECRET STUFF'
}, function(username, password, callback) {
  callback(username == 'username' && password == 'password');
});

app.use(auth.connect(basic));

app.use("/", express.static('www'));

app.listen(4001, function() {
  console.log('Node app is running on port', app.get('port'));
});

In my case I want to protect my static files that live on www folder, I'm using this code to achieve this:

app.use("/", express.static('www'));

Do you know why it's now working properly @kwhinnery?

Works perfect! Thanks

If you want to log out?

Gives the following error:

TypeError: auth.connect is not a function