user authentication with nginx

[Bob Stanton]

How else would you do it?

I don't want to use basic_auth because I want to be able to style my own
form.



On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Javi Lavandeira <javi at lavandeira.net>wrote:

> 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
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> 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,
>>
>> --
>> Javi Lavandeira
>>
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