[mod_python] Cookies & mod_rewrite

CARTWRIGHT, Guy, GBM Guy.CARTWRIGHT at rbos.com
Tue Sep 19 09:24:21 EDT 2006


>Have you added logging in your authenhandler and know for sure that it is
being called?

Yep, it's definitely being called

>I am not very good at mod_rewrite, but I read this as you using mod_rewrite
to proxy the request 
>through to a backend server. If this is true and your expectation is that
the cookie will be passed
>through to the backend to be used there somehow before perhaps also being
sent back to the client,
>your assumption would be wrong. This is because setting a cookie in the
authenhandler is going to be 
>done in the headers_out where only headers_in would be getting proxied
through.

>Is that what you were expecting?

Yeah, that's what I was expecting or wanted to happen. Is there any way of
setting a cookie in the handler that can be read by the back-end server?
Maybe changing headers_in?

Thanks & reagrds

Guy

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