On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:13:16AM -0500, spockdude wrote: > spockdude Wrote:
Hi there, > > Can Nginx do this or does it always just > > spread that traffic between all backend servers? (There are no backend servers configured in nginx, for mail.) > https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/mail-proxy/ > > It says "If authentication is successful, the authentication server will > choose an upstream server and redirect the request." > > If I'm understanding this correctly, I just need to create an authentication > server that instructs Nginx which upstream server to send the request to > based on the user's credentials. Correct. auth_http is documented at http://nginx.org/r/auth_http, which also shows the authentication protocol. nginx does not care how the authentication is done, or how the ip:port to next connect to is chosen; it just connects to what it is told to by the response of the auth_http request that it makes. Cheers, f -- Francis Daly [email protected] _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
