I tried using both getAttribute methods and getHeaderNames/getHeaders
methods but unfortunately the variables are set to null
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:01 PM, André Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nikhil wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Rainer Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> What do you expect to be the value of the 'REMOTE_USER' variable? Do you
>>
>>> expoect something else, than what you get from request.getRemoteUser()?
>>> What
>>> do you mean by variable? Maybe an httpd environment Variable?
>>>
>>>
>>> Precisely. I also need the httpd environment variable REMOTE_USER also
>> passed to the tomcat .... I have this in my httpd.conf ... and I am
>> reading
>> all the environment variables(apart from the headers) in the jsp but have
>> these values set to null... am I missing anything specific with these
>> directives?
>>
>>
>> SetHandler jakarta-servlet
>> RequestHeader set X_REMOTE_USER %{RU}e
>> SetEnv SET_REMOTE_USER %{REMOTE_USER}e
>> JkEnvVar JK_REMOTE_USER %{remoteUser}e
>>
>> As far as I know, REMOTE_USER is a *http header* of the request, added
> automatically by the browser if the user is authenticated. And as all http
> request headers, it is always passed on to Tomcat.
> At the Tomcat level, you can retrieve it like any other http header (I
> don't remember the precise way).
> But this has nothing to do with "environment values".
> In other words, you do not really need to mess around with environment
> values in Apache/Tomcat (like above), just retrieve the corresponding http
> header, it should already be there.
> No ?
>
> André
>
>
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