Cannot Secure Kue

We used to secure Kue with something like this:

var app = express();
app.use(express.basicAuth(config.kue.username, config.kue.password));
app.use(kue.app);

var port = config.production ? 21 : 8002;
app.listen(port);

This no longer works and the browser just hangs trying to connect.

[vicatcu]

This project is great, thanks! In case it helps anyone I got this working on Ubuntu 16.04, with the following in my package.json dependencies.

    "basic-auth": "^1.0.4",
    "express": "^4.14.0",
    "kue": "^0.11.5"

Note: I have set this up with Nginx, set up with LetsEncrypt for SSL, as a reverse proxy port 3333. If you don’t ride it on an encryption layer (like SSL), Basic Auth is trivially insecure. I’m not going to try to address what it takes to set that up in this comment, but here are two useful pointers.

var kue = require('kue');
var basicAuth = require('basic-auth');
var express = require('express')
var app = express()

var auth = function (req, res, next) {
  function unauthorized(res) {
    res.set('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic realm=Authorization Required');
    return res.send(401);
  };

  var user = basicAuth(req);

  if (!user || !user.name || !user.pass) {
    return unauthorized(res);
  };

  if (user.name === 'admin' && user.pass === 'password') {
    return next();
  } else {
    return unauthorized(res);
  };
};

app.use(auth);
app.use(kue.app);
app.set('title', 'My Application');
app.listen(3333);

[endorama]

By the way: npm package (8.1.2) does not require express 4, so my first comment is “wrong” 😃
My workaround and the link posted should work both for express 3 and 4 I think, as is only a simple middleware.
Maybe the problem reported by @digitaljohn is not related to express version as I first suggested?