mod_ajp: adding "secret=xxx" parameter to config yields syntax error

"Mark H. Wood" <mwood@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:29:32 -0500

HTTPD 2.4.41

I'm trying to set up authenticated proxying between HTTPD and Tomcat.
I have, for example:

  ProxyPass "/host-manager/" \
            "ajp://[::1]:8009/host-manager/" \
            secret="secret"

When I run configtest, the result is:
 * apache2 has detected an error in your setup:
AH00526: Syntax error on line 101 of /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/default_vhost.include:
ProxyPass unknown Worker parameter

Line 101 is the one with the 'secret' keyword.  If I un-fold the
directive to a single line, the same error is called against line 99
(the same ProxyPass directive).  The directive was previously working
before I added the 'secret' parameter.

What am I missing?

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