Authentication

[statquant]

Hello,
My understanding is that there is no way to open a server with a password. Would that be a feature you would consider adding ?
Maybe you know of an alternative package that allows to do this ?
Many thanks for all your cool work

[yihui]

This could be implemented (and should be easy to implement), but if you are providing a public-facing web service that needs authentication, I wouldn't recommend using servr. I'm not an expert in web servers and the servr package doesn't provide any security warranty. You should use it only for yourself or people who you trust.

[statquant]

Hello, this is well understood, anyway no solution is perfectly secured, and this would be fine for 99.99% of users. This would be used within a set of people within the same organisation. That would really be great for us.

[yihui]

Okay, now that you understand it, you can install the development version:

remotes::install_github('yihui/servr')

and see ?servr::server_config for an example of using the auth argument for authentication. Thanks!

[statquant]

This works great, thank you very much

[yihui]

You are welcome! I'll make a CRAN release soon.