Wildfly 8.1.0.Final - request.getRemoteUser() returns null

[narciskom]

Hi there,

I use Wildfly 8.1.0.Final as my App Server.

I have also apache HTTPD server konfigured with reverse proxy to my Wildfly. The goal af Apache httpd server in my case is to provide authentication. That works fine, I get the Authorization header into my request, but when I try to use request.getRemoteUser (or request.getAuthType()) I get null.

Here a sample code from my servlet

@Override

    public final void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

        LOGGER.error(request.getAuthType());

        LOGGER.error(request.getRemoteUser());

        for (Enumeration<String> headers = request.getHeaderNames(); headers.hasMoreElements();)

            LOGGER.error(headers.nextElement());

        LOGGER.error(request.getHeader("Authorization"));

    }

Output:

2015-12-15 11:24:17,738  (default task-14) null

2015-12-15 11:25:04,139  (default task-14) null

2015-12-15 11:25:09,933  (default task-14) Cookie

2015-12-15 11:25:10,852  (default task-14) Accept

2015-12-15 11:25:11,452  (default task-14) User-Agent

2015-12-15 11:25:12,091  (default task-14) X-Forwarded-Host

2015-12-15 11:25:16,177  (default task-14) Host

2015-12-15 11:25:16,177  (default task-14) Accept-Encoding

2015-12-15 11:25:16,177  (default task-14) Pragma

2015-12-15 11:25:16,177  (default task-14) Authorization

2015-12-15 11:25:16,177  (default task-14) Cache-Control

2015-12-15 11:25:16,177  (default task-14) Upgrade-Insecure-Requests

2015-12-15 11:25:16,177  (default task-14) X-Forwarded-For

2015-12-15 11:25:16,177  (default task-14) Accept-Language

2015-12-15 11:25:16,177  (default task-14) X-Forwarded-Server

2015-12-15 11:25:16,177  (default task-14) Basic bWF0ZWo6aGVzbG8=

there we can see, the Authorization flag is in the Request (also was wisible when I traced the packets in wireshark).

Why am I still getting null when calling request.getRemoteUser()?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Matej

[narciskom]

Hi there,

I solved the problem by adding

RequestHeader set REMOTE_USER %{REMOTE_USER}s

to apache config.

request.getRemoteUser() still returns null, but now I can do request.getHeader("REMOTE_USER") to get the remote USER