user authentication with nginx

[Javi Lavandeira]

Make your CGI/PHP/Python/Perl script return a "Status: xxx" header. 

I'm curious, why do you need to do it this way?

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Javi Lavandeira

Twitter: @javilm
Blog: http://www.lavandeira.net/blog

On 2012/08/20, at 19:42, Bob Stanton <farseas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for my lack of precision.  I know how to do all the below, I just don't know how to tell nginx whether or not user authentication was successful.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Javi Lavandeira <javi at lavandeira.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 2012/08/20, at 6:32, Bob Stanton <farseas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I specifically want to supply my own form, get the username and PW, check it against my DB with a CGI program, and then pass values back to Nginx.
> 
> Do you mean that you want to know how to create an HTML form, pass the parameters to a CGI, and then return an HTML output to the user?
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> 
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