[Geoserver-devel] [jira] (GEOS-6753) Flexible Authentication Filter for gathering credentials from request headers

Mauro Bartolomeoli created an issue

GeoServer / ImprovementGEOS-6753

Flexible Authentication Filter for gathering credentials from request headers

Issue Type:

ImprovementImprovement

Affects Versions:

2.6.0

Assignee:

Mauro Bartolomeoli

Components:

Security

Created:

07/Nov/14 9:35 AM

Priority:

MinorMinor

Reporter:

Mauro Bartolomeoli

A new AuthenticationFilter is added to get user credentials from request headers in a configurable way (using regex) and use them to authenticate the user with the configured Authentication providers chain. The main use case is sharing session credentials with a proxy front-end such as Apache HTTPD

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