[us...@httpd] Passing REMOTE_USER from reverse proxy to app server

2009-07-07 Thread Tom Evans
Hi all httpd 2.2.11, prefork MPM, FreeBSD 7.2 I'm trying to pass the REMOTE_USER variable, as determined by the reverse proxy, to a backend application server. The main reason to do this is to offload authnz to the proxy, and to keep all this centralised in one place. The authn module that will

Re: [us...@httpd] Passing REMOTE_USER from reverse proxy to app server

2009-07-07 Thread Nick Kew
Tom Evans wrote: [chop] That rewrite stuff happens before authentication. You would need to put your rewriterules inside a Location to activate them after it's happened. -- Nick Kew - The official User-To-User support forum

Re: [us...@httpd] Passing REMOTE_USER from reverse proxy to app server

2009-07-07 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:47 +0100, Nick Kew wrote: Tom Evans wrote: [chop] That rewrite stuff happens before authentication. You would need to put your rewriterules inside a Location to activate them after it's happened. Isn't that the point of %{LA-U:FOO}, to do a subrequest to get