[issue10751] WSGIREF - REMOTE_USER and REMOTE-USER collision

2010-12-21 Thread R. David Murray
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[issue10751] WSGIREF - REMOTE_USER and REMOTE-USER collision

2010-12-21 Thread Alex Raitz
New submission from Alex Raitz : Clients can overwrite 'REMOTE_USER' header variable value with an arbitrary 'Remote-User' value by specifying the later after the former. This has tricky implications when a proxy server is being used, namely that if the proxy passes a re-written REMOTE_USER bu