Include notes for nginx

miguelgrinberg · Apr 18, 2015 · ed8b4a3 · ed8b4a3
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@@ -97,7 +97,10 @@ Note that because digest authentication stores data in Flask's ``session`` objec
 WSGI Considerations
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-Make sure to set `WSGIPassAuthorization On` as `documented here <https://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ConfigurationDirectives#WSGIPassAuthorization/>`_ to prevent the frontend web server from consuming the authorization header.
+Make sure that the authorization headers are passed through to your application.  Otherwise, your callbacks will have empty values for the user & password.  Here are the directives needed for the following web servers.
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+- Apache: set ``WSGIPassAuthorization On`` as `documented here <https://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ConfigurationDirectives#WSGIPassAuthorization/>`_.
+- Nginx: set ``wsgi_pass_authorization on`` as `documented here <http://wiki.nginx.org/NgxWSGIModule/>`_.
 
 API Documentation
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