nginx front-end to sharepoint

[Igor Sysoev]

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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Igor Sysoev
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