What modules are using the query term "token" for access control?
nanaya
me at myconan.net
Thu Jan 21 18:38:03 UTC 2016
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016, at 03:16, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> I have seen that couple media sites are using the "token" query term for
> access control to some media content and I was wondering what module can
> do that?
> For examples the request:
> http://example.com/media/111111.mp4?token=xyz_very_long_token
>
> allows access to only this 111111.mp4 specific file and not to 111112.mp4
> .
>
> I can write a web application that does the same thing but was wondering
> what might be used if there are couple web servers and couple content
> servers. In this specific case the token should be either shared between
> the servers or that the token has some encrypted data in it.
> Are there any modules that implements this function?
>
Something like this?
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_secure_link_module.html
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