Bug 34377

Summary:	Allow the overriding of 401 Unauthorized returns from an origin server.
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	Rici Lake <rici>
Component:	mod_proxy	Assignee:	Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	MassUpdate, PatchAvailable
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.1-HEAD
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://primero.ricilake.net/proxy21.patch
Attachments:	Patch for mod_proxy.c to implement ProxyAuthOverride

Description Rici Lake 2005-04-08 20:43:28 UTC

This patch (also available for Apache 2.0 at
http://primero.ricilake.net/proxy2.patch ) implements a single directive:

ProxyAuthOverride 403 | 404 | Off

which, if not set to Off, converts 401 Unauthorized returns from a proxied
origin server into 403 or 404 status codes. It is intended for use in a reverse
proxy environment where it is not desirable to allow authentication with the
origin server.

Possibly the directive should also scrub Authorization: headers from the
request, as it is hard to imagine a use case where this is not desirable.
However, that can easily be done with mod_headers.

Comment 1 Rici Lake 2005-04-08 20:45:52 UTC

Created attachment 14666 [details]
Patch for mod_proxy.c to implement ProxyAuthOverride

Comment 2 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:08:51 UTC

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