Aperture is an implementation of LSATs as a reverse HTTP proxy.
Aperture is a reverse proxy that acts as a payment and authentication gateway for Lightning Network powered APIs. It can handle gRPC requests over HTTP/2 as well as REST over HTTP/1 and 2.
Aperture receives incoming connections, verifies the validity of the LSAT and either forwards the request to the appropriate end point, or obtains a Macaroon and sends it together with a Lightning invoice and the HTTP status code 402 Payment Required.
Aperture is currently used in production in Lightning Loop and Pool.
By default Aperture uses port 8081. This port needs to be reachable from the outside.
Aperture will create a TLS key and self-signed certificate. To run Aperture in production, it will need a valid TLS certificate for the domain it is running on.
Run Aperture
To run Aperture, simply run the following command from within aperture's directory.