Key Authentication

Features

The key-auth plug-in implements the authentication function based on the API Key, supports parsing the API Key from the URL parameter or request header of the HTTP request, and verifies whether the API Key has permission to access.

Configuration field

Name	Data Type	Parameter requirements	Default	Description
consumers	array of object	Required	-	Configure the caller of the service to authenticate the request.
keys	array of string	Required	-	The name of the source field of the API Key, which can be a URL parameter or an HTTP request header name.
in_query	bool	At least one of in_query and in_header must be true.	true	When configured true, the gateway will try to parse the API Key from the URL parameters.
in_header	bool	The same as above.	true	The same as above.
_rules_	array of object	Optional	-	Configure the access list of a specific route or domain name for authenticating requests.

The configuration fields of each item in consumers are described as follows:

Name	Data Type	Parameter requirements	Default	Description
credential	string	Required	-	Configure the consumer's access credentials.
name	string	Required	-	Configure the name of the consumer.

The configuration fields of each item in _rules_ are described as follows:

Name	Data Type	Parameter requirements	Default	Description
_match_route_	array of string	Optional，Optionally fill in one of _match_route_, _match_domain_.	-	Configure the route name to match.
_match_domain_	array of string	Optional，Optionally fill in one of _match_route_, _match_domain_.	-	Configure the domain name to match.
allow	array of string	Required	-	For requests that meet the matching conditions, configure the name of the consumer that is allowed to access.

Warning：

• If the _rules_ field is not configured, authentication will be enabled for all routes of the current gateway instance by default;
• For a request that passes authentication, an X-Mse-Consumer field will be added to the request header to identify the name of the caller.

Example configuration

Enabled for specific routes or domains

The following configuration will enable Key Auth authentication and authentication for gateway-specific routes or domain names. Note that the credential field can not be repeated.

consumers:
- credential: 2bda943c-ba2b-11ec-ba07-00163e1250b5
  name: consumer1
- credential: c8c8e9ca-558e-4a2d-bb62-e700dcc40e35
  name: consumer2
keys:
- apikey
in_query: true
# Use the _rules_ field for fine-grained rule configuration
_rules_:
# Rule 1: Match by route name to take effect
- _match_route_:
  - route-a
  - route-b
  allow:
  - consumer1
# Rule 2: Take effect by domain name matching
- _match_domain_:
  - "*.example.com"
  - test.com
  allow:
  - consumer2

The route-a and route-b specified in _match_route_ in this example are the route names filled in when creating the gateway route. When these two routes are matched, calls whose name is consumer1 will be allowed Access by callers, other callers are not allowed to access;

*.example.com and test.com specified in _match_domain_ in this example are used to match the domain name of the request. When the domain name matches, the caller whose name is consumer2 will be allowed to access, and other calls access is not allowed.

Depending on this configuration, the following requests would allow access：

Assume that the following request will match the route-a route:

Set the API Key in the url parameter

curl  http://xxx.hello.com/test?apikey=2bda943c-ba2b-11ec-ba07-00163e1250b5

Set the API Key in the http request header

curl  http://xxx.hello.com/test -H 'x-api-key: 2bda943c-ba2b-11ec-ba07-00163e1250b5'

After the authentication is passed, an X-Mse-Consumer field will be added to the header of the request. In this example, its value is consumer1, which is used to identify the name of the caller.

The following requests will deny access：

The request does not provide an API Key, return 401

curl  http://xxx.hello.com/test

The API Key provided by the request is not authorized to access, return 401

curl  http://xxx.hello.com/test?apikey=926d90ac-ba2e-11ec-ab68-00163e1250b5

The caller matched according to the API Key provided in the request has no access rights, return 403

# consumer2 is not in the allow list of route-a
curl  http://xxx.hello.com/test?apikey=c8c8e9ca-558e-4a2d-bb62-e700dcc40e35

Gateway instance level enabled

The following configuration does not specify the _rules_ field, so Key Auth authentication will be enabled at the gateway instance level.

consumers:
- credential: 2bda943c-ba2b-11ec-ba07-00163e1250b5
  name: consumer1
- credential: c8c8e9ca-558e-4a2d-bb62-e700dcc40e35
  name: consumer2
keys:
- apikey
in_query: true

Error code

HTTP status code	Error information	Reason
401	No API key found in request.	API not provided by request Key.
401	Request denied by Key Auth check. Invalid API key.	Current API Key access is not allowed.
403	Request denied by Basic Auth check. Unauthorized consumer.	The requested caller does not have access.