On Oct 30, 2009, at 12:49 PM, André Warnier wrote:
Glad to have been of help.
One more nitpick however, below, lest you remain partly confused.
Yes, indeed. I was confused by the "Same as the value of the CGI
variable REMOTE_USER." statement in the
HttpServletRequest.getRemoteUser javadoc,
Hi.
Glad to have been of help.
One more nitpick however, below, lest you remain partly confused.
Devin Bougie wrote:
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With the latest posted configuration,
I am able to see the REMOTE_USER HTTP header from the backend GlassFish
Web Application (using HttpServletRequest.getHeader("REMOTE_USE
Hi André,
Thank you very much for another thorough explanation. This certainly
does help clear up my confusion. With the latest posted
configuration, I am able to see the REMOTE_USER HTTP header from the
backend GlassFish Web Application (using HttpServletRequest.getHeader
("REMOTE_USER"
Devin,
I still have some lingering doubt about whether there is not a confusion
somewhere between
- the Apache process's environment values (what it gets in its own
environment when it starts up)
- the Apache "internal environment variables" (set internally by Apache,
for Apache only, during o
I have tried a different approach by moving the RewriteRules into the
Location directive. With this configuration, the HTTP_REMOTE_USER
variable is set and visible by the backend script and application.
However, REMOTE_USER is still blank. Here is the alternate
configuration:
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Hi André,
Thank you very much for your time and explanation. For what it's
worth, I have tried inserting a RewriteCond to make sure the proxy
only occurs when REMOTE_USER is set. This cleaned up the rewrite.log
file a bit, but the script is still not able to see REMOTE_USER. Here
is ou
Devin Bougie wrote:
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Hi.
I'll give you my interpretation, after looking at the log, not really at
the configuration.
I think the confusion may be about when and where, things happen
exactly. And it is not really helped by your choice to proxy from your
server to itself..
If you examine
We proxy connections trough Apache to GlassFish Web Applications, and
would like to give those applications access to the http REMOTE_USER
variable. To make sure this is not related to GlassFish, I have
created a very basic test script. The kerberos authentication and
Apache proxy work pr
