Re: mod_cgi not passing headers for authentication

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On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 10:07 AM Roderick <hruodr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Sirs,
>
> running a CGI script, in which I myself implement basic
> authentication, I miss necessary headers:
>
> REMOTE_USER
> AUTH_TYPE
> HTTP_AUTHORIZATION
>
> According to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3875 the first MUST be passed.
>
> Is there a way to get these headers?
>
> I get the last putting in the config file:
>
> SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1
>
> But I also need the first header. How to get apache to work like
> standard httpd?
>
> If possible, I want to keep apaches authentication of static pages.

If Apache isn't doing basic auth, it can't supply REMOTE_USER to you,
because it hasn't authenticated anyone.  Similar for AUTH_TYPE -- the
server hasn't done any auth.
Authorization isn't passed by default intentionally as a typical CGI
has no business w/ the users credentials.

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