Can I secure SOAP web services using NGINX API Gateway ?

Hi, I need to know that How to secure SOAP web services using NGINX's API gateway feature ? ** Current Implementation ** I have an application with rest interfaces and is secured by NGINX's AUTH_REQUEST module. For each request reaching NGINX, AUTH_REQUEST sends a SubRequest t

SOAP Behind API Gateway

Hi, I have an application in internal network with no public internet access. I want NGINX API gateway deployed in public exposed network that authenticates incoming HTTP, and rest service traffic and then relays the traffic to upstream servers. Similarly I want the NGINX API Gateway to authent

Re: Nginx - API Gateway is not forwarding the request to Auth Service

Hi Francis, > I've read your description, and I confess I'm not sure what benefit > auth_request within nginx gives you. It looks like your application is > doing its own auth check on every request anyway, so having nginx do > the same thing seems redundant. I'm probably missing something. can u

How to Edit/Delete own posted reply or topic

Hi, I need to edit one reply to a topic in this list and need to know how to perform it. I cannot see any edit or delete button. I have been using stackoverflow where edits and delete is allowed to the users. Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,273547,273547#msg-273547 __

Re: Nginx - API Gateway is not forwarding the request to Auth Service

Hi Francis, Thanks for your interest. I would certainly like to contribute for the future implementers of NGINX reverse proxy with API gateway functionality. Below I will explain my application with NGINX configuration I have performed and the code snippets/references for future users. If you like

Re: Nginx - API Gateway is not forwarding the request to Auth Service

Hi maxim, After implementing your valuable inputs I came across the following error in my application. Error: "Request 'GET /login' doesn't match 'POST /login" this means that nginx is sending GET requests to authentication service. So the flow is as follows and is according to your valuable f

Re: Nginx - API Gateway is not forwarding the request to Auth Service

Hi Maxim, Thanks for the response. As you said below, > Instead, it issues a > subrequest for every incoming request, and allows further > processing of the request if and only if the subrequest returns > 200. This means my authentication service will be getting a subrequest to /login everyt

Nginx - API Gateway is not forwarding the request to Auth Service

Hi, I am trying to implement the NGINX API gateway in nginx 1.10.3 community version. I am facing the issue that NGINX is not forwarding the request to authentication service. nginx configuration is pasted at the end of this thread. I have written authentication service which is listening for lo

NGINX - Not Calling Java Based Auth Applicaiton running in Spring Boot

Hi, I am implementing nginx as API gateway. I have two applications written in spring-boot-web with angularjs. One application is which is auth application and has login.html page inside it. The othe is my upstream applicaiton. My issue is when I comment/disable the /auth part of the below config

NGINX - API Gateway - Can It work With Session Based Authentication and Upstream Applicaitons

Hi Guys, I read the NGINX docs for API Gateway functionality where I can get my the users to my upstream application get authenticated by a different application. My Idea was to develop 2 applications as a proof of concept. The applications are as follows 1. Main Application :

Can NGINX Forward the 401 Response to Upstream server to Destroy Temp User data

I have and NGINX reverse proxy and upstream server. NGINX authenticates the incoming request and forwards the request to upstream server, which also authenticates the request first and then creates a session for the user. I want to know if the user session gets expired in NGINX, will NGINX forwar

NGINX - Reverse Proxy With Authentication at 2 Layers

** Problem Background ** I have an application, say app-A, which is running on a private network unreachable by public network. Now a new requirement needs to deliver the webpages of app-A to external users over public network. As a solution to expose app-A, I want to use NGINX as reverse proxy a