On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:50:12AM +0100, nginx.mailinglist wrote:

> Hello
> just a quick question
>
> in lighttpd i was able to pass the username and pass from the url to php
> backend
>
> but nothing happens in nginx?
>
> let me explain
>
>
> lets say you have a URL like this
>
> http://userX:passY@example.com/bleh.php
>
>
> i expect my php backend to have user and pass entries in the $_SERVER
> variable as happens with lighttpd
>
> am i missing something with nginx? is it even possible?

$echo userX:passY | perl -MMIME::Base64 -lne 'print encode_base64 $_'
dXNlclg6cGFzc1k=

proxy_pass http://example.com/bleh.php;
proxy_set_header Authorization "Basic dXNlclg6cGFzc1k=";


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