cXML and Reverse Proxy and authentication

B2B cXML authentication

[GerryS]

I am using Apache as a reverse proxy to my back end B2B system. The back end uses the user certificate to authenticate the user to allow the POST of application data.

I need to have the reverse proxy pass the certificate from the front end to the back end so this authenticaton can take place.

I'm looking for an example config file or some documentation (for dummies :)) to allow me to do this.

[jdMorgan]

Is the user certificate passed as an HTTP request header?

If so, perhaps you could use mod_rewrite's [P] flag to implement the reverse proxy, and pass that HTTP request header value as a query string to the back-end...

Dunno... Never played with this before.

Jim