pravin-raha / kong-plugin-cookies-to-headers

A Kong plugin that will add Authorization header from cookie

kong-plugin-cookies-to-headers

A Kong plugin that will add Authorization header from cookie.

How it works

When enabled, this plugin will add new headers to requests based on set cookie. For example, if the cookie value is set like this

name=value
oauthtoken=13ca678d2aa8454599678e792266ea96

then the following headers would be added

Authorization   : Bearer 13ca678d2aa8454599678e792266ea96

Install

Install luarocks and run the following command

luarocks install kong-plugin-cookies-to-headers

Configuration

Configuring the plugin is straightforward, you can add it on top of an API by executing the following request on your Kong server:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8001/apis/{api_id}/plugins \
--data "name=cookies-to-headers" \
--data "config.cookie_name=cookieName"

Form Parameter	Required	Description
name	required	The name of the plugin to use, in this case: cookies-to-headers
cookie_name	optional	The name of the cookie which you want to convert into Authorization header
header_name	optional	The name of the header to be injected instead of the default Authorization header, like X-JWT-Assertion

License

Copyright 2022 Pravin Rahangdale

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.