Passport.js Strategy for HTTP Basic/Digest Authentication via http-auth

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library 1.0.7 ·javascript maintenance
verified May 27, 2026

http-auth-passport provides an integration layer that allows the use of the `http-auth` module's HTTP Basic and Digest access authentication within the Passport.js framework. This package enables developers to easily implement traditional HTTP authentication schemes in their Node.js applications, particularly those built with Express.js, leveraging Passport's robust strategy pattern. The current stable version is 1.0.7, with its last known release in 2021. The package itself has received minimal updates since then, indicating a slow maintenance cadence primarily focused on critical bug fixes or essential dependency alignments rather than active feature development. It serves a niche by bridging `http-auth`'s specific capabilities with the broader Passport ecosystem, offering an alternative to direct implementations like `passport-http` when `http-auth`'s features are preferred.

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