nginx front-end to sharepoint

[nginx at d-cohen.com]

Yes, we are using Basic authentication.

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:17:07PM -0500, nginx at d-cohen.com wrote:
> 
>> I am attempting to replace squid 3.0 with nginx as a reverse proxy to a 
>> sharepoint server with SSL and user-authentication.  The problem I am 
>> having is nginx does not appear to pass the credentials to the real 
>> server w/o modifying them (after several failed attempts, once simply 
>> gets access denied).  I am able to accomplish this in squid with this 
>> option: login=PASS
> 
> nginx should pass all headers as is.
> Do you use Basic authentication ?
> 
>> I'm wondering if anybody has any insight/experience into this issue.  I 
>> have included the relevant portions of my nginx.conf and my old 
>> squid.conf.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> nginx.conf:
>>
>> http {
>>     server {
>>         listen       443;
>>         server_name  192.168.0.10;
>>
>>         ssl                  on;
>>         ssl_certificate      /conf/nginx/cert.pem;
>>         ssl_certificate_key  /conf/nginx/key.pem;
>>
>>         location / {
>>             proxy_pass https://192.168.0.1/;
>>         }
>>     }
>> }
>>
>>
>> squid.conf:
>>
>> https_port 443 cert=/conf/squid/cert.pem key=/conf/squid/key.pem \
>>            cafile=/conf/squid/ca.pem vhost
>> cache_peer 192.168.0.1 parent 443 0 login=PASS no-query ssl proxy-only \
>>            originserver sslflags=DONT_VERIFY_PEER,DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
>>
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