From: Rha <rha7_@...>
Date: 2008-02-05T17:49:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding extra fields to request headers

If you don't know the answer, it is absurd and ignorant to answer with
a non-answer.

Did you know you can do CGI on ruby? did you know that request headers
are a web server concept and language agnostic?

Besides, ruby on rails IS ruby in the end.

ANSWER:
It depends on the web server you're using, but I will assume you're
using apache, so you use something like this in httpd.conf or
apache.conf:

RequestHeader add X-Your-Variable-Name 'The Value'

For example to use it to pass the logged on user name for a Windows
domain, something like this might work:


<VirtualHost *:82>
    ServerName yourwinserver.com
    ServerAlias www.yourwinserver.com

    RewriteLog logs/myapp_rewrite_log
    RewriteLogLevel 9

    <Location />
        AuthName "Authenticate to MyApp"
        AuthType SSPI
        SSPIAuth On
        SSPIAuthoritative On
        SSPIOmitDomain On
        Require valid-user
        
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{IS_SUBREQ} ^false$
        RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.*)
        RewriteRule . - [E=RU:%1]
        RequestHeader add X-Remote-User %{RU}e

    </Location>

    ProxyPass / http://www.yourwebserver.com:3000/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://www.yourwebserver.com:3000
    ProxyPreserveHost on
    
</VirtualHost>

Hope this helps. Have a good day!




On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:10:21 +1100, Clifford Heath
<no@spam.please.net> wrote:

>Pradeepta Swain wrote:
>> how can i add extra fields to request headers ?
>
>Please ask this in a Rails forum - this is Ruby here, not Rails.