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Mastering NGINX - Second Edition
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Mastering NGINX - Second Edition

by Dimitri Aivaliotis
July 2016
Beginner
320 pages
6h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Combining with memcached

Depending on the frequency of clients accessing the e-mail services on your proxy and how many resources are available to the authentication service, you may want to introduce a caching layer into the setup. To this end, we will integrate memcached as an in-memory store for authentication information.

NGINX can look up a key in memcached, but only in the context of a location in the http module. Therefore, we will have to implement our own caching layer outside of NGINX.

Combining with memcached

As the flowchart shows, we will first check whether or not this username/password combination is already in the cache. If not, we will query our authentication ...

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