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Re: HTTP request header

by Tamás Cservenák :: Rate this Message:

Hi there,

to get _any_ http header, you can do:

Form form = (Form) request.getAttributes("org.restlet.http.headers");
String someHeader = form.getFirstValue("a-header");

Or something like that (wrote from top of my head, maybe wrong with
some method name but the idea is clear I hope).

The REMOTE_USER env variabla by
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/env.html represents the
_authenticated_ user. That means, that REMOTE_USER will contain the
username that is an _authenticated_ request using. In restlet, you can
get that information like this:

String username = request.getChallengeResponse().getIdentifier();

Meaning: a HTTP Response will contain ChallengeResponse (either as
response to server's 401 or is doing a "preemptive" authentication).
Restlet will get the username for you, whatever auth is used (BASIC,
DIGEST, ...).

Hope helps,
~t~

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:52 AM, dtanner <dtanner@...> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> I already tried:
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> request.getAttributes().get( "REMOTE_USER" )
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> this returns null.
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> Any other ideas? I'm at a loss.
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> David
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> David Tanner
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> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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> Information Services and Technology
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> W92-144
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> dtanner@...
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> 617-253-0110
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> ________________________________
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> From: t.cservenak@... [mailto:t.cservenak@...] On Behalf Of Tamás Cservenák
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:08 PM
> To: nexus-dev@...
> Subject: Re: [nexus-dev] HTTP request header
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> Hi,
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> something like this?
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> http://www.restlet.org/documentation/1.1/api/org/restlet/data/Message.html#getAttributes()
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> See the attribute "org.restlet.http.headers"...
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> ~t~
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> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 3:07 AM, dtanner <dtanner@...> wrote:
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> I would love to get rid of:
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> HttpServletRequest servletRequest = ((ServletCall)((HttpRequest)request).getHttpCall()).getRequest();
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> And replace it with:
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> request.getAttributes().get( "value" )
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> However, I have to get the apache REMOTE_USER environmental variable and the only way that I've been able to do this is by using:
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> HttpServletRequest servletRequest = ((ServletCall)((HttpRequest)request).getHttpCall()).getRequest();
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> String Username = (String)servletRequest.getRemoteUser();
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> If you know of a way that is equivalent to the above using request.getAttributes().get( "value" ) or by any other means, I'm all ears!
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> Have any ideas?
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> David
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> David Tanner
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> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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> Information Services and Technology
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> W92-144
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> dtanner@...
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> 617-253-0110
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>
>
> ________________________________
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> From: t.cservenak@... [mailto:t.cservenak@...] On Behalf Of Tamás Cservenák
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:32 PM
> To: nexus-dev@...
> Subject: Re: [nexus-dev] HTTP request header
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> Well,
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> the code seems right (albeit dirty as I warned you) :)
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> Only thing I can say: the header is not there. Are you sure that you put the header into the _incoming_ request? Isn't that coming from the response header you send out to do the auth? (if I understood correctly).
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> Ie. Maven will never send an email in header, when requesting an artifact :)
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> ~t~
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> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:25 PM, dtanner <dtanner@...> wrote:
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> I'm using nexus 1.2.1 war with apache 2.2.3 and Tomcat 5.5.25.
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> I need to get header information from the initial HTTP request. I'm doing the following:
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> HttpServletRequest servletRequest = ((ServletCall)((HttpRequest)request).getHttpCall()).getRequest();
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> String email = (String)servletRequest.getHeader("Shib-InetOrgPerson-mail");
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> I should be getting an email address, but instead I'm getting a null.
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> I know I should be getting an email address because I wrote a simple jsp test web application (and deployed the test to that same container that nexus is deployed to) to test the header.
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> I'm doing something wrong. Any ideas?
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> David
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> David Tanner
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> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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> Information Services and Technology
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> W92-144
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> dtanner@...
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> 617-253-0110
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