Re: [Webware-discuss] request headers

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

jtr...@of... wrote:
>>jtr...@of... wrote:
>>
>>>Is there some way to get at the headers from the HTTP request in a
>>>WebKit servlet from a transaction?  Or at all?  I see a setHeader
>>>method on HTTPResponse but no header logic at all in HTTPRequest.  I'm
>>>using Webware 0.8.1 (I think).
>>
>>It uses CGI-style HTTP headers, like request.environ()['HTTP_HOST']
> 
> 
> So it does.  I notice though that the "Authorization" header is not
> getting through to my servlet.  Is this an artifact of my server
> setup, which is Apache + mod_webkit, or is it explicitly stripped out?

Yeah, that one's a pain in the butt -- Apache strips it out.  You can do 
something like:

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
RewriteRule ^/your/app - [env=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1]

There are other ways of getting around it as well, some Apache 
directives (in Apache 2), or compilation options (which I think is the 
only way to fix it in Apache 1.3).  It would be nice if mod_webkit fixed 
this Apache annoyance.

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