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- Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:10 pm #19361 I have a simple socket server created that listens for incoming triggers to do stuff on my ESP, but was wondering how to go about adding a simple authentication to server?

I took a look here but didn't find anything?

Any pointers?

- Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:09 pm #19386 Count the function points / validation rules / html requirements to implement HTML-based authentication . You are trying to run this code within a working RAM of ~20KB. If you want to run a webserver and have HTML-based authentication then you should change CPUs or pray for a miracle, IMO.

A very basic TCP server based on a very restricted HTTP / HTML stack then just possibly. Add a signature field based on a shared secret and SHA1 maybe. But you need to get real.

Please see my Developer FAQ for Q&A on nodeMCU Lua before asking a question here that's already been answered. This and the other official documentation should be your first reference for developing Lua Apps

- Thu Jun 04, 2015 2:25 am #19426 the other cheap trick is to use a special user-agent string (which can of course be sniffed)

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