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

License

Copyright (c) 2018

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

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