<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><span><div data-test-id="message-view-body"><div class="ydpf67c62aemsg-body ydpf67c62aeP_wpofO ydpf67c62aeiy_A" data-test-id="message-view-body-content"><div class="ydpf67c62aejb_0 ydpf67c62aeX_6MGW ydpf67c62aeN_6Fd5"><div><div id="ydpf67c62aeyiv8286068297"><div><div class="ydpf67c62aeyiv8286068297yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><span><div>Hello</div><div><br></div><div>We are having a legacy system(say a.b.c.d) which uses http basic authentication (username/password)</div><div>Currently
we are using nginx ingress controller to pass all the requests coming
to webserver(say 1.2.3.4) using kubernetes "auth-url" annotation to the legacy system
and if successful we are forwarding to our application server.(say w.s.x.c)<br></div><div><br></div><div>We want to do few things </div><div><br></div><div>we
want a consolidated nginx server(/container) which can use do secondary
authentication with legacy system and also cache successful requests.</div><div>is that possible ? We want to reduce number of hits going to legacy system for authentication thats our end goal</div><div><br></div><div>https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/configuring-subrequest-authentication/#</div><div>https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/content-cache/content-caching/</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div id="ydpf67c62aeyiv8286068297ydpe20df7cyiv9462922557yMail_cursorElementTracker_1554295915771">Bhaskar</div></span><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span class="ydpf67c62aeem_N ydpf67c62aeen_N"></span><ul data-test-id="navigable-list" class="ydpf67c62aehd_n ydpf67c62aeP_0 ydpf67c62aeH_6D6F ydpf67c62aeM_0 ydpf67c62aeir3_0 ydpf67c62aeD_F ydpf67c62aeab_C"><li class="ydpf67c62aeG_e ydpf67c62aep_R"><span class="ydpf67c62aer_P ydpf67c62aeD_F ydpf67c62aeM_1Eu5U7 ydpf67c62aecdPFi_Z1RVMOO ydpf67c62aecdPFi4_Z2aVTcY ydpf67c62aertlR_rtlR_h_2gl0WC"></span><br></li></ul></span><div><br></div></div></body></html>