Hi All,

I have several web applications running on distinct tomcat instances. Apache 
httpd is in front of all the tomcat instances, running as a reverse proxy. 
Authentication is realized at the container side. Access log files are active 
on the httpd side.

What I am missing in the httpd log files is the remote user information. I know 
it is not available via mod_proxy. So I plan to switch to mod_jk. But it is not 
available in mod_jk either. And I would like to contribute on this. I know a 
possible work around would be to include the remote user information in the 
response headers and log this via httpd; but I am not sure I can count on the 
software owners to make the changes in a short time.

If there is not difficulty in tomcat for grabbing the remote user, I would like 
to add a new response message in AJP13.

The new response message would be as follow:

AJP13_CONTAINER_REMOTE_USER :=
  prefix_code    7
  remote_user (string)


Any comments before I start working on this ?

Thanks for your interest,
--
Issa Gorissen

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