by kornel@CodeCraftersDesign.com | Jan 28, 2019 | Programming Tips
Using cutting edge encryption Akka HTTP comes with support for Basic Authentication, and that in turn supports plugging in password hashing algorithms from solid third party encryption libraries, such as bcrypt. HTTP Basic Authentication is based on a very simple...
by kornel@CodeCraftersDesign.com | Jan 20, 2019 | Programming Tips
One way to think of Akka HTTP is that it’s en extendable web server. Another way to think of it as a tool to build applications directly from HTTP primitives. Yet another way to conceptualize it, is thinking of it as an extension of Akka streams over HTTP. It...
by kornel@CodeCraftersDesign.com | Jan 15, 2019 | Wordpress
The address bar shows your IP address, not your domain name. If you run your own installation of WordPress, you may have run into this issue. Say you have a domain name called example.com. You have set it up properly pointing the DNS A records to your IP address...
by kornel@CodeCraftersDesign.com | Jan 1, 2019 | Programming Tips
Akka http comes with support for basic authentication. This allows us to wrap the response in a basic authorization directive which will return a 401 Authorization Required header if the submitted credentials are not correct; if the authorization is correct...
