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post("/login") {
  basicAuth
  logger.debug("The user %s was successfully logged in.".format(params("userName")))
}

error {
  case ex => logger.error("there was an error requesting %s" format request.path, ex)
}

protected def basicAuth() = {
  val req = new BasicAuthStrategy.BasicAuthRequest(request)
  def notAuthenticated() {
    response.setHeader("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"%s\"" format realm)
    halt(401, "Unauthenticated")
  }

  if(!req.providesAuth) {
    notAuthenticated
  }
  if(!req.isBasicAuth) {
    halt(400, "Bad Request")
  }
  val user = DAO.validateLoginPassword(req.user, req.password)
  if (user != null)
    response.headers("REMOTE_USER", user.id)
  else {
    notAuthenticated
  }
  Option(user)
}