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Atif_Malik_1133
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Nov 10, 2005

(re)Setting remote_addr

I saw several posts on how to get the real client ip to be forwarded as a variable. My problem is slightly different I want to reset the variable REMOTE_ADDR to be the real client address. All the iru...
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May 23, 2007

Posted By Joe on 11/10/2005 9:20 AM

 

 

So, basically, you cannot override standard CGI varables. You'll either need to come up with another name, or live with the auto-renaming that apache is doing.

 

 

 

 

So LTM doesn't offer any mechanism to write/overwrite standard CGI variables? Is that the case? To maintain legacy apps that use REMOTE_USER, I'd like to parse a username from the subject DN of a client certificate and insert it into the REMOTE_USER variable.