Jeff, the auth is in the headers.

Using externals, your node app will get the request, which will contain the 
headers, which will contain the auth.  Have the app pick the auth bits out of 
the headers and plug them into the headers of the new requests it is about to 
make.

On Mar 12, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Jeff Charette <[email protected]> wrote:

> How do you pass authentication to an outside process?  Is there a way to do 
> this with headers?
> 
> My use case is to use externals to pass an already authenticated request 
> directly to node then have node act as that user on the users documents.
> 
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