IP Filter: A light-weight IP address based filtering system

This package provides easy IP based access control. This can be achieved either by blacklisting certain IPs and whitelisting all others, or whitelisting certain IPs and blacklisting all others.

Version

0.0.4

Requirements

• Node

Installation

Recommended installation is with npm. To add node-ipfilter to your project, do:

npm install ipfilter

Usage with Express

Blacklisting certain IP addresses, while allowing all other IPs:

// Init dependencies
var express = require('express')
    , ipfilter = require('ipfilter')
    , app = express.createServer()
    ;

// Blacklist the following IPs
var ips = ['127.0.0.1'];

// Create the server
app.use(ipfilter(ips));
app.listen(3000);

Whitelisting certain IP addresses, while denying all other IPs:

// Init dependencies
var express = require('express')
    , ipfilter = require('ipfilter')
    , app = express.createServer()
    ;

// Blacklist the following IPs
var ips = ['127.0.0.1'];

// Create the server
app.use(ipfilter(ips, {mode: 'allow'}));
app.listen(3000);

Changelog

0.0.4

• Add tests
• Update docs
• Refactor, and restyle

0.0.1

• First revision

Credits

Michael Schonfeld <[email protected]>

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Dwolla <[email protected]>

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