local _M = {} function _M.authorization_header() local b64 = require("ngx.base64") -- open apipassword file for reading (b flag is required for some reason) -- (file /etc/.sia/apipassword has to be mounted from the host system) local apipassword_file = io.open("/data/sia/apipassword", "rb") -- read apipassword file contents and trim newline (important) local apipassword = apipassword_file:read("*all"):gsub("%s+", "") -- make sure to close file after reading the password apipassword_file.close() -- encode the user:password authorization string -- (in our case user is empty so it is just :password) local content = b64.encode_base64url(":" .. apipassword) -- set authorization header with proper base64 encoded string return "Basic " .. content end return _M