authentication being passed to php

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Hi Igor
its ok i got it working now!

all i have to do was add this to my config


*fastcgi_pass_header ** **Authorization;*


i wasn't testing the HTTP request properly so wasn't seeing the results
expected

Thank you very much!
made my work day




2009/7/23 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>

> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:22:19AM +0100, nginx.mailinglist wrote:
>
> > Thank you
> > I see that works fine for that particular user:pass combo
> >
> > but (sorry to be a pain)
> >
> > that means i have to encode the user:pass combination into the config
> file
> >
> > what happens if there are thousands of user:pass combinations?
> >
> > how can this info be dynamically passed to the php backend for
> > authentication to occur there (by looking up in a database for example)?
> >
> > i cant be updating the config file everytime a new user is added that can
> be
> > crazy especially if there are thousands or more users
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > edit: i google and found this old email conversation on nginx mailinglist
> >
> http://markmail.org/message/tl7h2fclizgptwnr#query:NGINX%20PHP%20AUTHENTICATION+page:1+mid:f3xw2gjllat6urff+state:results
>
> I do not understand your problem.
> nginx passes client's user:pass in Authorization header transparently.
>
> > 2009/7/23 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>
> >
> > > 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=";
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Igor Sysoev
> > > http://sysoev.ru/en/
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>
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