Cookie forwarding when using reverse proxy

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:51:40AM -0700, Liang Jin wrote:

> I am wondering whether it is possible to do the following trick:
> 
> Senario:
>    Frontend nginx server is accepting requests for site A
> (domain1.com) and will reverse proxy to internal site B (domain2.com).
>    There are cookies set for site A and they are not directly
> available to the backend site B (different domain).
> 
> So, my question is : would it be possible for nginx to forward the
> cookies, that are set for domain1.com, to domain2.com.

Browsers see you site as domain1.com, so they will send domain1.com
cookies. nginx passes all headers inlcuding "cookie" to a backend.


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