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We have HTTP Basic Auth and HTTP Digest Auth support in Lift. The
authentication is implemented as a partial function that you implement
like so:

    LiftRules.httpAuthProtectedResource.prepend {
      case (ParsePath("api" :: _, _, _, _)) => Full(AuthRole("admin"))
    }

    LiftRules.authentication = HttpBasicAuthentication("lift") {
      case (username, password, req) => {
        User.find(By(User.username, username)) match {
          case Full(user) if user.password.match_?(password) => {
            userRoles(AuthRole("admin"))
            true
          }
          case _ => false
        }
      }
    }