RE: Passing proxy authentication user name

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That's the option.
 
I don't have the user's name, that's what I need from the proxy-authorization header which is coming from the proxy server.
 
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:16:12 +0000
> From: nick@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Passing proxy authentication user name
>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:08:42 +0000
> <terry.cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > I have dumped the env and it doesn't include the auth info. I have confirmed that the proxy-authorization header is being sent by the proxy server.
> > I found somewhere, that I can't find again, something that implied that apache had to be compiled with a specific option to allow it to transmit this header to the pages or scripts. I really hope that this isn't the case as I really don't have the weeks required to get a server to build a compile environment and gather all the bits and pieces that I'd need to do that.
>
> Could that be the BIG_SECURITY_HOLE compile option?
> Not sure if that still exists (I don't use it)!
>
> If you have your users' usernames and passwords, you could
> also set the Authorization header from the Proxy-Authorization.
> Then configure the server for authentication and your
> scripts will get REMOTE_USER.
>
> --
> Nick Kew
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