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Reverse Proxy Authentication

The pattern in which a proxy in front of an application asks an external service whether a request is authenticated before forwarding it, typically via a forward-auth or ext-authz call.

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Porting OAuth2 Proxy to Gateway API moves the login redirect into a Traefik-specific CRD

A guide rebuilding browser OIDC login off ingress-nginx keeps its Gateway and HTTPRoute objects intact and hands the 401-to-302 step to two Traefik middlewares. Swap the controller and that half gets rewritten.

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