Closes #100 by removing support for HTTP basic auth

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/node_exporter.go b/node_exporter.go
index ef500f7..434dd3d 100644
--- a/node_exporter.go
+++ b/node_exporter.go
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ var (
         metricsPath       = flag.String("web.telemetry-path", "/metrics", "Path under which to expose metrics.")
         enabledCollectors = flag.String("collectors.enabled", "diskstats,filefd,filesystem,loadavg,mdadm,meminfo,netdev,netstat,sockstat,stat,textfile,time,uname", "Comma-separated list of collectors to use.")
         printCollectors   = flag.Bool("collectors.print", false, "If true, print available collectors and exit.")
-        authUser          = flag.String("auth.user", "", "Username for basic auth.")
-        authPass          = flag.String("auth.pass", "", "Password for basic auth.")
 
         collectorLabelNames = []string{"collector", "result"}
 
@@ -83,23 +81,6 @@ func (n NodeCollector) Collect(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
         scrapeDurations.Collect(ch)
 }
 
-type basicAuthHandler struct {
-        handler  http.HandlerFunc
-        user     string
-        password string
-}
-
-func (h *basicAuthHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-        user, password, ok := r.BasicAuth()
-        if !ok || password != h.password || user != h.user {
-                w.Header().Set("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"metrics\"")
-                http.Error(w, "Invalid username or password", http.StatusUnauthorized)
-                return
-        }
-        h.handler(w, r)
-        return
-}
-
 func execute(name string, c collector.Collector, ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) {
         begin := time.Now()
         err := c.Update(ch)
@@ -164,16 +145,6 @@ func main() {
         signal.Notify(sigUsr1, syscall.SIGUSR1)
 
         handler := prometheus.Handler()
-        if *authUser != "" || *authPass != "" {
-                if *authUser == "" || *authPass == "" {
-                        log.Fatal("You need to specify -auth.user and -auth.pass to enable basic auth")
-                }
-                handler = &basicAuthHandler{
-                        handler:  prometheus.Handler().ServeHTTP,
-                        user:     *authUser,
-                        password: *authPass,
-                }
-        }
 
         http.Handle(*metricsPath, handler)
         http.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {