Securing URLs with the Secure Link Module in NGINX and NGINX Plus
Securing URLs with the Secure Link Module in NGINX and NGINX Plus Both the open source NGINX software and NGINX Plus are very secure and reliable as web servers, reverse proxies, and caches for your content. For additional protection against access by unauthorized clients, you can use directives from the Secure Link module to require that clients include a specific hashed string in the URL of the asset they are requesting. In this blog post, we will discuss how to configure the two methods implemented in the Secure Link module. The sample configuration snippets protect HTML and media playlist files, but can be applied to any type of HTTP URL. The methods apply to both NGINX and NGINX Plus, but for the sake of brevity we’ll refer only to NGINX Plus for the rest of the blog. An Overview of the Methods in the Secure Link [ more… ]
