extract auth header from query string

[Mark Lybarger <mlybarger@xxxxxxxxx>]

i have a user who is connecting to a websocket that requires a basic authenticaion header.  they're doing this from the browser's _javascript_ as

wss://user:pass@xxxxxxxxxx/endpoint

that's not supported in all browsers (Safari on iphone). as a workaround, perhaps they can use:

wss://myhost.com/browserendpoint?creds=user:pass

then apache can rewrite to the correct url and add the needed Authorization header.?

Any help on implementing or other ideas would be most appreciated.

Thanks!

-mark-