Kyle <k...@attitia.com> writes: > Kyle wrote: >> Hi Sluggers, >> >> I have a prob I hope you can help with pls. And I realise it might be a >> little outside a general Linux question. But if you have knowledge or are >> able to point me to the best forum/newsgroup/whatever, I would be grateful. >> >> 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.
<Location "/example"> # Make sure you use set, in all cases, so that a client can't fake # the header. RequestHeader set X-My-Auth-Id %{REMOTE_USER}e </Location> That should sort you right on out. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html