Forcing a Basic Dialog Box.

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:14:58PM -0500, David wrote:

> I am trying to use the new postgres module and cant figure out how
> to force a "Basic" dialog on the browser to do auth.
> 
> I am running v 1.0.11
> 
> The auth is working correctly ie: http://user:pass@domain.com
> correctly authenticates.
> 
> The thing I want to happen is force the Basic dialog in the browser
> to pass the credentials.
> 
> Here is my config.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> location / {
>         auth_basic "Restricted";

Just a side note: this line is useless.

>         root        /var/www/web/;
>         auth_request      /auth;

Browser will show auth dialog as long as it gets 403 with 
WWW-Authenticate header.  With auth_request it's auth script 
responsibility to provide this header.

> 
>         try_files $uri $uri/ @upstream;
>     }
> 
> 
>  location /auth {
>             internal;
> 
>             postgres_escape   $user $remote_user;
>             postgres_escape   $pass $remote_passwd;
> 
>             postgres_pass     database;
>             postgres_query    "SELECT login FROM users WHERE
> login=$user AND pass=$pass";
>             postgres_rewrite  no_rows 403;
>             postgres_output   none;
>         }

No idea if postgres module is able to set one.

Maxim Dounin