# Alternate auth sources for httpNodeAuth

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alternate-auth-sources-for-httpnodeauth/9039>\
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**Created:** [15 March 2019 22:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alternate-auth-sources-for-httpnodeauth/9039 "2019-03-15T22:42:06Z")\
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Does the middleware work for this? From `settings.js`

```auto
    // The following property can be used to add a custom middleware function
    // in front of all http in nodes. This allows custom authentication to be
    // applied to all http in nodes, or any other sort of common request processing.
    //httpNodeMiddleware: function(req,res,next) {
    // // Handle/reject the request, or pass it on to the http in node by calling next();
    // // Optionally skip our rawBodyParser by setting this to true;
    // //req.skipRawBodyParser = true;
    // next();
    //},

```

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