Questions tagged [auth-request]
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Setting headers with NGINX auth_request and oauth2_proxy
I want to use the auth_request and oauth2_proxy to set a header upon a successful authentication request and then pass that through to the next proxy inline that will handle the actual request.
I've setup NGINX and the various proxies to do their…
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Nginx auth_request handler accessing POST request body?
I'm using Nginx (version 1.9.9) as a reverse proxy to my backend server. It needs to perform authentication/authorization based on the contents of the POST requests. And I'm having trouble reading the POST request body in my auth_request handler.…
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Conditional nginx auth_request
I want to have my nginx proxy perform a subrequest for authentication only if the client is not already authenticated. The conditional part is where I am stuck. How can I craft a configuration so that the client is only authenticated once per…
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Nginx authentication with auth_request module
i have installed nginx with auth_request module enabled, but i have a problem when i am trying to setup the authentication. I want to authenticate through a php script, when a user makes request to this location, then the nginx request to a php file…
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Can i append some information in oauth/check_token endpoint and retrieve it at authorization server?
Preface
I am working on an OAuth application for security between two servers. I have an OAuth Server and a Resource Server. The Resource Server has a single .war deployed that contains 4 APIs.
Single Responsibility
The OAuth server has to…
user2252882
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Pass arguments to auth_request module from nginx
I want to protext a live HLS stream. I want to use the auth_request module. I want to check if a request is valid by passing a key. So something like: http://domain.com/hls/stream.m3u8?key=xxxxxxx
I have the following setup in nginx.conf:
location…
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How do you send an auth_request to a variable URI in nginx?
I am trying to use the auth_request module to check whether a user is allowed to access a certain file. The user posts the request at /my/download/uri/. I want the authorisation request to be posted at auth_service:9999/files/. The…
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Can I create a "private" location in Nginx?
Can I create a location which can be accessed by any other location in nginx config and cannot be accessed directly from outside?
I can use a deny directive, but it will also deny access to the locations defined in nginx config.
Here's my config -…
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nginx ingress annotations to redirect to authentication and get back headers
I've the below nginx conf file to redirect all the requests (by default) to /auth (of my service) and then get back a response header (foo_id). This header will be forwarded to the original request URI triggered by user. The below works properly…
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Caching Token from auth_request
I want to cache the token from my request header field Authorization.
Authorization : Bearer abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
My goal is, that I don't have to validate every request on the validation-server. If the Authorization-Token is cached (and…
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nginx auth_request redirect
I use auth_request module(http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_auth_request_module.html). My nginx config:
auth_request /auth;
auth_request_set $backend_status $upstream_status;
location / {
proxy_pass http://unicorn;
error_page 401…
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Keycloak and Nginx: auth_request
I am trying to setup auth_request with keycloak proxy, but it does not work (Nginx returns 500 status code).
Here is my example:
nginx.conf
upstream target_host {
server prometheus:9090;
}
upstream oauth_host {
server…
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NGiNX auth_request set-cookie for use downstream?
Trying to create a cookie inside the auth_request call and pass it downstream for immediate use. The best I can manage so far is setting the cookie in the browser after the call is complete with:
auth_request /blah/blah;
auth_request_set…
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nginx auth_request error auth request unexpected status: 302 while sending to client
I'm really new to nginx and am having some trouble with auth_request.
With the following conf
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/html;
index index.php;
server_name www.test.com;
error_page 401 403 =…
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How to authorize access to directory using nginx auth_request module + python
I want to authorize access to directory /private using auth_request Nginx module .
In Nginx documentation , it seems I should do like bellow :
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
location /private/{
…
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