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 > to activate them after it's happened. > Isn't that the point of %{LA-U:FOO}, to do a subrequest to get a

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 to activate them after it's happened. -- Nick Kew - The official User-To-User support forum of the A

[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 a