I ended up using the admin account from couch to do what I need, but am going 
to circle back on this.  I tried that approach by passing the AuthSession 
already to no avail.  What else do I need in the header or is there a good doc 
on this?

Jeff Charette | Principal 
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web / identity / packaging

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On Mar 13, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Stephen Bartell <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> Jeff Charette | Principal 
>> We Are Charette
>> web / identity / packaging
>> 
>> m  415.298.2707
>> w  wearecharette.com
>> e   [email protected]
> 

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