Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using subrequests

Re:Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using... by TimWolla on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:01PM (#16188749)

Direct link to the repository, in case my server does not survive HN's hug of death: https://github.com/TimWolla/haproxy-auth-request

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Re:Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using... by plange on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:56PM (#16189219)

Thanks not only for making this, but also describing your process in a blog.

I use ngx_http_auth_request_module a lot and used haproxy a lot in the past but it's currently too limiting for my usecases - now i know it supports lua we're in a whole different ballgame.

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Re:Show HN: Haproxy-auth-request – HTTP access control using... by TimWolla on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:05PM (#16189300)

> Thanks not only for making this, but also describing your process in a blog.

You're welcome. I like giving back to Open Source.

> but it's currently too limiting for my usecases

My personal experience is the opposite: For one project I specifically slapped on an haproxy in front of the nginx after the fact, because I considered it's HTTP "rewriting" abilities way superior. What I could do with a single ACL + http-response set-header (setting a specific CSP for a single path only) would have resulted in great pain with nginx only.

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