Hello Owen, the apache is only a proxy meant for authentication. I simply forward all requests to a tomcat server. Natural answer would be why don't configure authentication there? That's because somebody needed ip based authentication (x)or password authentication. This is nuts, I know but It's the scenario. So I just need the authentication - programming something in PHP or CGI makes everything more complicated. Cheers, Pete --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx