Apache as SSL front-end for lame web app

Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Wed Nov 8 22:51:08 EST 2006


>   I found <http://3cx.org/item/46>, which I think tells me how to use
> mod_proxy to do the forwarding and SSL encapsulation.  That's kind of
> what I was thinking.  But can I throw some HTTP authentication on top
> of that, too?

Sounds reasonable. But I don't know if you can force local
authentication, strip off whatever, then pass on a new userid.  I'd
Browse in the O'Reilly "Hacks" series to see if there's something that
will combine with mod_proxy  that will do it.

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Bill
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