vercel-pw-protection

This plugin overwrites your vercel.json's routes attribute so that your deployment is password protected.

Login on demo: https://mkdocs-vercel-pw-plugin.vercel.app/#Täßt😀Emoji

This plugin is an implementation of the cookie method from https://github.com/six-two/mkdocs-vercel-basic-auth-example.

Prerequesites: You have created a vercel.json file and it does not have any existing routes.

Usage

Install the package via pip:

pip install mkdocs-vercel-pw-plugin

Then add the plugin to your mkdocs.yml:

plugins:
- vercel_pw:
    cookie_name: JSESSIONID
    password: Monkey123!
    restrict_to_domain: mkdocs-pw-protection.vercel.app
    vercel_json_path: ../vercel.json

Optional: You can link to /logout.html.

You need to run a successful build (mkdocs build or mkdocs serve) after changing the config before pushing your changes to Vercel. This is because the vercel.json is only updated after a build is performed.

Customization

By default the "login" page mimics the Vercel deployment not found page. This serves as a small security by obscurity measure. Of course you can also provide your own docs/deployment_not_found.html that instead shows a login form or something like that.

Notable changes

Version 0.1.0

• Use hex encoding instead of base64. The issue is that vercel's header matching is case insensitive, which makes password brute forcing much easier. For example if the password was aa (YWE=), the password c (YwE=) would also be accepted. The new encoding should also accept Unicode characters like Umlauts, emojis, etc. But I would recommend sticking to ASCII, since Unicode is tricky and I am not sure if JavaScript and Python handle encoding exactly the same.

Version 0.0.2

• Hide the Plugin 'vercel_pw' was specified multiple times warning