[pca] RFE: pca-proxy.cgi without stored credentials

[Alexander Skwar]

Hi!

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:01, Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Hm, how about making the username something like

   <SOA-Username>!<SOA-Password>

Ie. seperate the username & password in the username "field" with something
like a ! (or whatever...).

While this might work, I find it ugly....

Alexander
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