Hello, the version 1.1 of sec-wall has just been released. Notable changes --------------- - Added an 'ssl-wrap-only' option for terminating SSL without requiring clients to provide any authentication information - Simplified access to sec-wall's internals from other Python packages so various authentication methods can be directly imported from Python code What is sec-wall? ----------------- sec-wall is a feature packed security proxy. sec-wall has many interesting features, including support for SSL/TLS, WS-Security, HTTP Auth Basic/Digest, extensible authentication schemes based on custom HTTP headers and XPath expressions, powerful URL matching/rewriting and an optional headers enrichment. sec-wall uses and is built on top of several fantastic Python open source technologies, such as gevent, Spring Python, pesto, lxml, zdaemon or PyYAML and is meant to be highly customizable and easy to use. Good performance, tests, documentation and building an awesome community are at the very heart of the project. Here's an example showing how little is needed to secure a backend server with HTTP Basic Auth. # ###################################################### # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # stdlib import uuid # Don't share it with anyone. INSTANCE_SECRET = '5bf4e78c256746eda2ce3e0e73f256d0' # May be shared with the outside world. INSTANCE_UNIQUE = uuid.uuid4().hex def default(): return { 'basic-auth':True, 'basic-auth-username':'MyUser', 'basic-auth-password':'MySecret', 'basic-auth-realm':'Secure area', 'host': 'http://example.com' } urls = [ ('/*', default()), ] # ###################################################### Links ----- Project's homepage: http://sec-wall.gefira.pl/ Getting started: http://sec-wall.gefira.pl/documentation/getting-started/index.html Usage examples: http://sec-wall.gefira.pl/documentation/usage-examples/index.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/fourthrealm Blog: http://www.gefira.pl/blog IRC: #sec-wall channel on Freenode network cheers, -- Dariusz Suchojad