- From: Darren New <dnew@yuan.fv.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:43:29 -0800 (PST)
- To: Brandon Long <blong@uiuc.edu>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Brandon Long wrote:
> There is a one line code change in most versions of NCSA HTTPd (at least
> 1.3 - 1.5) to make it pass the Authorization header through to CGI scripts.
> Remove the line in get_http_headers() in the strcasecmp(Authorization)
> section which says continue;. This will cause the code to fall through
> and make the HTTP header into a CGI environment variable.
Thank you for the clue. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but I didn't
see that one in there anywhere. Now, if only doing that was legal, I'd be
happy, but I haven't been able to get anyone from NCSA to quote me a
price for a license for distributing a modified version of the server.
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