The following reply was made to PR mod_proxy/282; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mod_proxy/282: Currerntly netscape proxy loses environment variables after client passes thru proxy (fwd) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 10:39:05 -0600 (MDT) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 11:13:33 -0500 From: TSgt Rebel Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mod_proxy/282: Currerntly netscape proxy loses environment variables after client passes thru proxy Just for further clarification if the apache web server and proxy server are running on the same machine are the access logs contained in the proxy, identifiable by the web server? Things like Username/I.P. address/hostname etc...attached to a URL request from the client to the webserver. For example:I would want to check, without making a person reenter his login name that only rthomps is updating rthomps' information in an internal phonebook. As I understand with the new Netscape proxy server I only have the I.P. address of the requesting client, which I should be able to correlate against the proxy accesslog to get his username and match that to an additonal database to confirm his identity. Can Apache Server (WEB, and PROXY) provide this functionality? Marc Slemko wrote: > > I don't understand what you are asking or what the problem is. > Environment variables are not part of the HTTP spec and are used locally > by CGIs. If you are talking about the remote server, then to the remote > server it appears like the request is coming from the proxy. > > On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Rebel Thompson wrote: > > > >Description: > > Does the APACHE proxy server lose environment variables when pointed to an > > NT/Netscape Web server or any other server as far as that goes. Info like > > Remote Ident/logname or CGI variables etc... If so what would be the > > easiest > > way around that data loss. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in > > advance if you are able to assist.
