authentication being passed to php

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:50:12AM +0100, nginx.mailinglist wrote:

> Hello
> just a quick question
> 
> in lighttpd i was able to pass the username and pass from the url to php
> backend
> 
> but nothing happens in nginx?
> 
> let me explain
> 
> 
> lets say you have a URL like this
> 
> http://userX:passY@example.com/bleh.php
> 
> 
> i expect my php backend to have user and pass entries in the $_SERVER
> variable as happens with lighttpd
> 
> am i missing something with nginx? is it even possible?

$echo userX:passY | perl -MMIME::Base64 -lne 'print encode_base64 $_'
dXNlclg6cGFzc1k=

      proxy_pass http://example.com/bleh.php;
      proxy_set_header  Authorization "Basic dXNlclg6cGFzc1k=";


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