Middleware

Learn how to use middleware in your application to handle requests and responses.

Authula provides middleware via plugins.

Examples of plugins with middleware and what it does:

Session Plugin Middleware: checks if the user is authenticated by validating the session cookie.
Bearer Plugin Middleware: checks if the user is authenticated by validating bearer tokens in a header, typically Authorization header. This is dependent on the JWT Plugin being in use.
CSRF: protects state-changing (POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE) endpoints with CSRF tokens.