>Number: 1687
>Category: mod_rewrite
>Synopsis: %{REMOTE_USER} returns empty string during
>RewriteCond/RewriteRules evaluation
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 16 11:30:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.2
>Environment:
Here is the result of uname -a:
SunOS wwwserver 5.5.1 ISS_1.0 sun4d sparc SUNW,SPARCserver-1000
>Description:
I am trying to use %{REMOTE_USER} during the RewriteRule processing.
But when I attempt this set of RewriteRules:
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_USER} ^.*johnd
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.apache.org/ [P,L]
This proxy is inside an AUTH_TYPE that does ask for my userid and
password, but the rewrite.log file shows this:
little.fsr.com - - [14/Jan/1998:15:30:58 -0800]
[www.some.org/sid#736d8][rid#8a3d0/initial]
(4) RewriteCond: input='' pattern='^.*johnd' => not-matched
The part of this that is preventing me from doing what I want (that is,
to make the RewriteRule based upon a userid obtained from a challenge)
not possible, is that the input='' so the result of %{REMOTE_USER} is
empty.
I am running Apache 1.2 and I have tried this on 1.2.5 as well.
In case I have the modules compiled in the wrong order, here is the result
of apache-server -l:
Compiled-in modules:
http_core.c
mod_env.c
mod_log_config.c
mod_mime.c
mod_negotiation.c
mod_status.c
mod_info.c
mod_include.c
mod_dir.c
mod_cgi.c
mod_asis.c
mod_imap.c
mod_actions.c
mod_userdir.c
mod_proxy.c
mod_alias.c
mod_rewrite.c
mod_access.c
mod_auth.c
mod_auth_anon.c
mod_expires.c
mod_headers.c
mod_usertrack.c
mod_browser.c
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
I have tried to follow the code for the setting of the value os
r->connection->user and decided that it might be faster for you
to check the code. Sorry, I have no suggestions
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