How to identify http://user@ in URL with no Auth

[R & S Buckland <bu...@bigpond.net.au>]

Hi,

Here is an interesting problem / task.

Given a url like http://user@host.com/path
I would like to identify the 'user' portion and make it available
as an environment variable to the script (PHP).

Obviously this username and a password would normally be passed
as authentication to a server if it request authorisation (no?).

What I have tried is:

    Turn on Authtntication and created a htpasswd user 'user1' with no
password
    I Hit the URL    http://user1@host.com/path/to/htpasswded/directory/
    but I got prompted with a dialog for authentication

My questions would be:
+    Without authentication turned on, does the browser pass this
information to apache?
+    If so where would it be located (I check the enviromnet and server vars
and found nothing)
+    Can it be turned on to be accessible ?
+    If I turn on authentication, can apache accept the provided username as
valid and proceed to use it
    instead of prompting with a 401 ? (forcing an authenticvation prompt at
the browser)

Ahh such fun!

(My fallback so far is to use javascript on the first page
which looks for the user1@ in the document.location
and then redirects the browser passing info back to the
server.. not neat but it does work.. i would prefer to
do this at the server though through some sort of config etc)

any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
ramon


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Re: How to identify http://user@ in URL with no Auth

[R & S Buckland <bu...@bigpond.net.au>]

More on this,

Eventually what I want to do is in Apache, setup the config so that

https://user1@host.com/index.html > returns /some/path/user1/index.html
https://user2@host.com/index.html > returns /some/path/user2/index.html

Can it be done ?


----- Original Message -----
From: "R & S Buckland" <bu...@bigpond.net.au>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 10:26 PM
Subject: How to identify http://user@ in URL with no Auth


> Hi,
>
> Here is an interesting problem / task.
>
> Given a url like http://user@host.com/path
> I would like to identify the 'user' portion and make it available
> as an environment variable to the script (PHP).
>
> Obviously this username and a password would normally be passed
> as authentication to a server if it request authorisation (no?).
>
> What I have tried is:
>
>     Turn on Authtntication and created a htpasswd user 'user1' with no
> password
>     I Hit the URL    http://user1@host.com/path/to/htpasswded/directory/
>     but I got prompted with a dialog for authentication
>
> My questions would be:
> +    Without authentication turned on, does the browser pass this
> information to apache?
> +    If so where would it be located (I check the enviromnet and server
vars
> and found nothing)
> +    Can it be turned on to be accessible ?
> +    If I turn on authentication, can apache accept the provided username
as
> valid and proceed to use it
>     instead of prompting with a 401 ? (forcing an authenticvation prompt
at
> the browser)
>
> Ahh such fun!
>
> (My fallback so far is to use javascript on the first page
> which looks for the user1@ in the document.location
> and then redirects the browser passing info back to the
> server.. not neat but it does work.. i would prefer to
> do this at the server though through some sort of config etc)
>
> any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> ramon
>
>
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