nginx http auth module query

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:57:50AM -0500, karanj wrote:

> One additional question here -
> 
> In this as I understand it redirects to error_page on receiving a 4xx
> status code. Is it possible that nginx reads the value of error page
> from a custom header which comes along with the response (with 4xx
> status code) and then assign the value of error_page to that value.

You may use use auth_request_set to make headers available as 
variables in main request.

See docs here:

http://mdounin.ru/hg/ngx_http_auth_request_module/file/tip/README#l23

Sample usage may be seen in tests here:

http://mdounin.ru/hg/ngx_http_auth_request_module/file/tip/t/auth-request-set.t

Maxim Dounin