[Answered ]-Django request for CAC (common access card)

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The issue has to do with naming headers on the Apache side. Django drops all headers that are named with an underscore ("_"). However, if you use a dash ("-"), django will accept the header and convert the dash to an underscore.

We changed this in the httpd-ssl.conf file:

RequestHeader set REMOTE_USER "%{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_CN}s"

to:

RequestHeader set REMOTE-USER "%{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_CN}s"

Now in our views.py we can call request.META and get all authentication info. Even with the middleware, the request makes it though with all data.

👤Daniel Johnson

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