I am building an Authorization header before forwarding the request to the proper service. The token is being passed to Nginx as a query string parameter named custom.
Here is the thing:
set $auth_header 'Bearer $arg_custom';
proxy_set_header Authorization $auth_header;
proxy_pass http://grafana;
When doing so, Grafana returns Invalid Basic Auth Header. But it works fine if I hard-code the header value, like this:
proxy_set_header Authorization "Bearer jg598jmg9584jm09ey4";
I already know Nginx builds the value correctly, because I can see it with this response header:
add_header X-Token $auth_header;
Security concerns aside, it seems pretty obvious that Nginx sets the Authorization value correctly when hardcoded, but not when taken from a variable or using string interpolation.
Any suggestion?
