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nosurf

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nosurf is an HTTP package for Go that helps you prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. It acts like a middleware and therefore is compatible with basically any Go HTTP application.

Why?

Even though CSRF is a prominent vulnerability, Go's web-related package infrastructure mostly consists of micro-frameworks that neither do implement CSRF checks, nor should they.

nosurf solves this problem by providing a CSRFHandler that wraps your http.Handler and checks for CSRF attacks on every non-safe (non-GET/HEAD/OPTIONS/TRACE) method.

nosurf requires Go 1.1 or later.

Features

  • Supports any http.Handler (frameworks, your own handlers, etc.) and acts like one itself.
  • Allows exempting specific endpoints from CSRF checks by an exact URL, a glob, or a regular expression.
  • Allows specifying your own failure handler. Want to present the hacker with an ASCII middle finger instead of the plain old HTTP 400? No problem.
  • Uses masked tokens to mitigate the BREACH attack
  • Has no dependencies outside the Go standard library.

Example

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/justinas/nosurf"
	"html/template"
	"net/http"
)

var templateString string = `
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
{{ if .name }}
<p>Your name: {{ .name }}</p>
{{ end }}
<form action="/" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="name">

<!-- Try removing this or changing its value
     and see what happens -->
<input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="{{ .token }}">
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>
</body>
</html>
`
var templ = template.Must(template.New("t1").Parse(templateString))

func myFunc(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	context := make(map[string]string)
	context["token"] = nosurf.Token(r)
	if r.Method == "POST" {
		context["name"] = r.FormValue("name")
	}
	
	templ.Execute(w, context)
}

func main() {
	myHandler := http.HandlerFunc(myFunc)
	fmt.Println("Listening on http://127.0.0.1:8000/")
	http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nosurf.New(myHandler))
}

More examples can be found in the examples/ directory. Feel free to add one for your favorite framework or an unusual setup of the default HTTP tools.

API Docs

... are at GoDoc. No big surprise, right?

Contributing

  1. Find an issue that bugs you / open a new one.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Branch off, commit, test.
  4. Make a pull request / attach the commits to the issue.