[csw-maintainers] Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> 2013/8/12 Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>
>>
>> > The place to retrieve the user is here:
>> > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/gar/v2/lib/web/releases_web.py#L207
>>
>> Alright. This is the receiving end. Where is the emitting end?
>
> There's a few stages: the HTTP client uses HTTP basic auth. That is
> handled by Apache; but squid is doing something to the headers. I'm
> not sure if we only have a forward proxy or a reverse proxy?
>
> What I think we have, is this:
> HTTP client → squid → Apache → script

Maybe Dago could provide a description of the architecture.

Returning to the REMOTE_USER not being defined, after a cursory look at
other people having issues with that it seems that even if the
environment variable is not provided, there is a possibility to obtain
the remote user from the "authorization" header, see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8495229/remote-user-not-being-set-by-apache2
but maybe this is also modified by the proxy.

We need more information about the proxy's configuration.
-- 
Peter