[pca] RFE: pca-proxy.cgi without stored credentials
Martin Paul
martin at par.univie.ac.at
Mon Nov 16 11:01:19 CET 2009
Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Dunno how feasible it is, but couldn't you implement it so, that the
> proxy does a HTTP Basic Auth Request? And the username/password
> thus supplied is then passed on as the Sun Account details?
Doesn't seem to work. When the client sends an "Authentication: ..."
header, the HTTPD takes care of this, and simply sets REMOTE_USER to the
username if the correct password was supplied. The CGI doesn't get the
full credentials (user/passwd) returned by the user.
Martin.
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