[dancer-users] request->user

[arjan]

Thank you Russell! This is very helpful.

On 09/16/2015 04:06 PM, Russell Jenkins wrote:
> On 16/09/2015 4:40 pm, arjan wrote:
>> I expected that Dancer2 would get it from the environment hash %ENV. 
>
> request->user  is sugar for  request->env->{REMOTE_USER}
> i.e. its passed through to Dancer2 as an entry in the psgi $env hashref.
>
> You may want to look at the code for some of the 
> Plack::Middleware::Auth::* modules to see how they populate 
> REMOTE_USER in the psgi env. (Those middleware are typically less that 
> 100 lines.)
>
> If you are using nginx, Apache or similar to do basic or digest auth 
> before using a reverse proxy to your app, the proxied request will NOT 
> contain the REMOTE_USER. You'll need to propagate the user in a custom 
> header.
>
> Cheers,
>   Russell.
>
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