All,
 I am a newbie to Apache and have been struggling to find a solution for my 
requirement. My requirement is that I need to configure Apache so that it can


1)      Request for a SSL client certificate from a client machine.

2)      Pass the client certificate to the server back-end for authentication 
via LDAP.

I could do #1 by adding a 'SSLVerifyClient optional' in my ssl.conf file.
I could do #2 by configuring httpd.conf via mod_rewrite to save the 
SSL_CLIENT_CERT in the http RequestHeader.

However, I see that apache itself is trying to authenticate the client 
certificate and not letting the backend handle the authentication. Is there any 
way for Apache to request for the client certificate from the client machine, 
but not do the authentication?

I appreciate your help.

Regards,
Praveen

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