[Catalyst] Accessing request environment variables under fastcgi?

[Mark Trostler]

They're all in a hashref here: $c->engine->env
	Mark

Chris Weyl wrote:
> Hey all --
> 
> So, I might be a bit crazy here, and there might be a perfectly good way 
> to do this that I'm not aware of, and my searches aren't returning 
> anything useful.  Hitting me with a clue-stick is quite welcome. :-)
> 
> I'm working on a site where all of the users already have SSL certs 
> identifying themselves installed in their browser (for a different site, 
> same project).  I'd like to have Apache handle the messy SSL bits, and 
> Apache already provides me with the directives needed to do this, 
> including authenticating the cert by checking the its signature against 
> the signer's CA.  Apache also provides a whole slew of environment 
> variables, on a per-request basis, for exactly this. [1]  I'm then 
> planning on examining what of the authentication modules I can 
> steal^H^H^H^H^Hliberate to do client authentication based on what apache 
> is saying.  I'm using mod_fcgid as that's what is packaged with Fedora.
> 
> These variables don't seem to be passed on through to the app.
> 
> My questions:
> 
> 1) Is there a way I can get at these SSL_* environment varialbes, on a 
> per-request basis, from my app?
> 2) It looks to me like the only sane way to do this is to patch
> mod_fcgid to pass the SSL_* vars through as headers.  (e.g.
> SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY becomes x-ssl_client_verify -- and does the whole
> "prepend x-" seem sane?)  (This works, and I have such a patch.)
> 3) ...or, maybe, use some mod_rewrite incantation that's eluded me so 
> far, though I'm unsure mod_fcgid passes env variables through at all.
> 4) Is there something I'm missing/overlooking here?  Does 
> Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI stash the passed %env somewhere?  Or is there 
> some other way I can get at it?
> 
> Thanks-
>                                        -Chris
> 
> [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_ssl.html#envvars
> 
> -- 
> Chris Weyl
> Ex astris, scientia
> 
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