[ANNOUNCE] auth request module 0.2

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Tue Jun 21 22:38:23 MSD 2011


Hello!

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:00:21PM -0400, adamchal wrote:

> OK, you're absolutely right.  I didn't have that line in there.  I'm
> trying to follow the reasoning for needing to zero-out request body, but
> it doesn't make immediate sense.  Is the OP in this thread along the
> same lines? http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,206860

Auth request doesn't read request body, and subrequest used for 
auth will have no body but the same headers as original request. 
Thus it's needed to clear Content-Length if you are going to 
proxy_pass auth subrequest somewhere.

Maxim Dounin



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