/beego-security-headers

beego framework filter for easy security headers management

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beego-security-headers

beego-security-headers is a beego framework filter which allows HTTP response security headers to be easily managed on application's configuration file.

After adding beego-security-headers to your application, you can test it at securityheaders.com.

How to use

  1. Download beego-security-headers package
    go get github.com/gosecguy/beego-security-headers
  2. Import the package on your application's main.go
    import securityHeaders "github.com/gosecguy/beego-security-headers"
  3. add the following line to your application main function
    securityHeaders.Init()
  4. edit your conf/app.conf file with the desired security headers
    [secheaders]
    x-xss-protection = "1; mode=block"
    x-frame-options = "DENY"
    x-content-type-options = "nosniff"
    strict-transport-security = "max-age=315360000"
    referrer-policy = "same-origin"
    

Example

To run beego ToDo application with beego-security-headers, run

$ docker build -t beego-security-headers:example .

followed by

$ docker run -it --rm -p 8080:8080 beego-security-headers:example

Then visit http://localhost:8080 and open Developer Tools. Switch to the Network tab and select the first GET request to inspect HTTP request headers

Network panel

License

Copyright (c) 2018

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.