On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:46:54AM +1000, Kyle wrote: >> I have a situation where htpasswd access is being used to authenticate >> user access to a particular URL by apache. >> >> Once authenticated, apache processes the relevant URL which is >> actually a pass-off to Tomcat. What I need to do is get hold of the >> now-authenticated user-name (i.e. the user name apache has just >> allowed through) and be able to attach that username to the POST now >> being sent to Tomcat.
Normally this would be accessible using the REMOTE_USER environment variable. I assume that these are also accessible from with a java class run by tomcat. Cheers, John -- John Blog http://www.inodes.org/blog OLPC Friends http://olpcfriends.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
