web-push-libs/vapid

Name: vapid

Owner: web-push-libs

Description: Apps and Libraries to support WebPush VAPID

Created: 2016-04-04 18:07:51.0

Updated: 2018-05-21 16:52:04.0

Pushed: 2018-05-21 16:52:26.0

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Language: Python

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README

Easy VAPID generation

A set of VAPID encoding libraries for popular languages.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT YOUR FAVORITE LANGUAGE!

VAPID is a draft specification for providing self identification. see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-webpush-vapid/ for the latest specification.

TL;DR:

In short, you create a JSON blob that contains some contact information about your WebPush feed, for instance:

"aud": "https://YourSiteHere.example",
"sub": "mailto://admin@YourSiteHere.example",
"exp": 1457718878

You then convert that to a JWT encoded withalg = "ES256". The resulting token is the Authorization header “Bearer …” token, the Public Key used to sign the JWT is added to the Crypto-Key set as “p256ecdsa=…”