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Re: authentication being passed to php

July 23, 2009 06:43AM
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:22:19AM +0100, nginx.mailinglist wrote:

> Thank you
> I see that works fine for that particular user:pass combo
>
> but (sorry to be a pain)
>
> that means i have to encode the user:pass combination into the config file
>
> what happens if there are thousands of user:pass combinations?
>
> how can this info be dynamically passed to the php backend for
> authentication to occur there (by looking up in a database for example)?
>
> i cant be updating the config file everytime a new user is added that can be
> crazy especially if there are thousands or more users
>
> Regards
>
> edit: i google and found this old email conversation on nginx mailinglist
> http://markmail.org/message/tl7h2fclizgptwnr#query:NGINX%20PHP%20AUTHENTICATION+page:1+mid:f3xw2gjllat6urff+state:results

I do not understand your problem.
nginx passes client's user:pass in Authorization header transparently.

> 2009/7/23 Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
>
> > 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=";
> >
> >
> > --
> > Igor Sysoev
> > http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >

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Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/
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authentication being passed to php

nginx.mailinglist July 23, 2009 05:50AM

Re: authentication being passed to php

Igor Sysoev July 23, 2009 05:52AM

Re: authentication being passed to php

nginx.mailinglist July 23, 2009 06:22AM

Re: authentication being passed to php

Igor Sysoev July 23, 2009 06:43AM

Re: authentication being passed to php

nginx.mailinglist July 23, 2009 06:57AM

Re: authentication being passed to php

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Re: authentication being passed to php

Istv July 23, 2009 07:13AM

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