Dieter Maurer wrote:
Yes, I understand the alternative to FastCGI, but mod_proxy doesn't pass the required environmental variable REMOTE_USER to zope. I was asking about single sign-on alternatives for Zope.
In principle, the rewrite rules allow to specify environment extensions. When I remember right, you use an "E=..." in the "[P, ...]" to call for such an extension.
Actually, I see now you are referring to the substitution flags. This is indeed env|E=VAR:VAL but the idea is to set an environmental variable which "can be later dereferenced in many situations, but usually from within XSSI (via <!--#echo var="VAR"-->) or CGI (e.g. $ENV{'VAR'})." But, unless I'm missing something, this solution hits the problem that environment variables are not passed into zope (except through FastCGI). Regards, Fernando