Update:
The issue I'm seeing lies with Catalyst-Engine-Apache, which has not
seen updates since Feb 2008. Since that time, Catalyst::Request has
added remote_user() to its API with the expectation that the various
engines would use that over the deprecated user() method. This leads to
a code path where $c->req->can('remote_user') will eval true, but always
return 'undef' under the Apache engine, which is exactly what's going on
with the Remote authN credential module.
So, I've opened bugs under C::E::Apache with patch files that fix this
issue as well as fix broken tests and minimally bring the code up to
date with more current C::Runtime standards.
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Catalyst-Engine-Apache
Cheers,
--Trevor
Trevor Leffler wrote:
Stuart Watt wrote:
On 9/22/2010 7:40 PM, Trevor Leffler wrote:
Hi, I'm using:
Catalyst::Runtime -- 5.80022
Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication -- 0.10016
I'm finding that C::Request->remote_user is not returning my username
when I have authenticated under apache, whereas the deprecated
C::R->user does.
Are you using SSL? Looking at the code, this can affect the
environment variables used to transmit the remote name.
All the best
Stuart
The behavior is the same for both http and https requests. That is,
after a successful [AuthType Basic] authN to a non-SSL page,
C::R->remote_user returns 'undef' while C::R->user returns 'tleffler'.
Thanks for the response though, I hadn't checked for that variable.
It's a good point about how env vars are accessed... Is Catalyst using
(in my case, via mod_perl2) Apache2::RequestRec->user to get the
logged-in username?
--Trevor
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