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csrf-lite

1.0.0 • Public • Published

csrf-lite

CSRF protection utility for framework-free node sites.

Usage

var csrf = require('csrf-lite');
var Cookies = require('cookies');
var qs = require('querystring');
 
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  var c = new Cookies(req, res);
 
  // use the session id as the token
  var token = c.get('sessid');
 
  // if the user doesn't have one, then give them one.
  // it's just a random string anyway.
  if (!token) {
    token = csrf(token);
    c.set('sessid', token);
  }
 
  switch (req.method) {
    case 'GET': return showForm(req, res, token);
    case 'POST': return validForm(req, res, token);
  }
}).listen(PORT)
 
function showForm(req, res, token) {
  res.end('<html><form method=post>' +
          '<label>Name <input name=name></label>' +
          // add the csrf token html
          csrf.html(token) +
          '<input type=submit value=GO>' +
          '</form></html>');
}
 
function validForm(req, res, token) {
  // note: this won't work for 
  req.setEncoding('utf8');
  var data = '';
  req.on('data', function(c) {
    data += c;
  });
  req.on('end', function() {
    data = querystring.parse(data);
 
    // validate with the user's token
    var valid = csrf.validate(data, token);
    if (valid)
      res.end('ok\n');
    else {
      res.statusCode = 403;
      res.end('csrf detected!\n');
    }
  });
}

csrf(token)

If a token is supplied, then returns it. If not, then it generates a 192-bit random string and returns that.

Make sure that you stash the token somewhere like a session or something, so that it can be retrieved later.

csrf.html(token)

Returns an <input> field containing the token, for csrf validation in forms.

If no token is provided, then it returns nothing.

csrf.validate(data, token)

Validates that the x-csrf-token field is equal to the token. Call this with the parsed form data on the other side. Can also be used on request headers, query string, or any other random data.

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Install

npm i csrf-lite

Repository

github.com/isaacs/csrf-lite

Homepage

github.com/isaacs/csrf-lite#readme

Weekly Downloads

17

Version

1.0.0

License

ISC

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