secondary auth caching

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 12:52:22PM +0000, Ramachandra Bhaskar via nginx-devel wrote:

> Hello
> We are having a legacy system which uses http basic authentication (username/password)Currently we are using nginx ingress controller to pass all the requests coming to webserver using kubernetes "auth-url" annotation to the legacy system and if successful we are forwarding to our application server.
> We want to do few things 
> we want a consolidated nginx server(/container) which can use do secondary authentication with legacy system and also cache successful requests.is that possible ? We want to reduce number of hits going to legacy system for authentication thats our end goal
> https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/configuring-subrequest-authentication/#https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/content-cache/content-caching/
> RegardsBhaskar

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