Protect link with cookies?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 01:30:50PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I am pretty newbie to nginx and having problem on protecting my links.
> I am using valid_referers but is it possible using cookies for make it
> stronger?
> 
> For example I set cookie uid with nginx's userid in 'location / {}'
> and check somehow under 'location /download/ {}' for cookie uid. Is it
> possible or just a dream? Userid was just an idea and not necessary.
> And any other ideas are welcome as well because cheating referer is
> easy task.

    location /download/ {
        if ($cooke_NAME = '') {
            return 403;
        }
    }

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