Thanks Nick for the pointer. Let me try this out in my boxes.

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Nick Kew <n...@webthing.com> wrote:

>
> On 26 May 2009, at 22:37, Atanu wrote:
>
>  - The user will still type http://foo.com. This time a mod_proxy handler
>> will display a login page. In fact this my own authentication handler
>> written in mod_perl. It authenticates using a back end system by accepting
>> username and password from the login page.
>>
>
> This is all fairly standard, and you probably don't really need mod_perl.
>
>  I want the mod_proxy to ProxyPass to the url in the following format
>>
>> http://bar.com/bar.pl?sid=APACHE_SESSION&u=UserName
>>
>
> Since you're using mod_perl, it would be fairly painless to
> append the query string in Perl.  The alternative is to use
> RewriteRule with [P] in place of proxypass.
>
> --
> Nick Kew
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