[PATCH] hgweb: add remoteuser to template variables

FZiegler zarf at klacto.net
Fri Sep 17 15:59:45 CDT 2010


Laurens wrote:

> *If* the value of REMOTE_USER is based on HTTP Authentication, Vary:
> Authorization might work. Although I think for Digest authentication
> this might mean that no response will be cached, not sure.

Just to be definite here: in my app, REMOTE_USER is not set by HTTP
authentication  (unless the client is mercurial itself, not a browser).

Neither is it in mpm's scenario, I believe. Otherwise, based on what you
say next, I gather he wouldn't expect proxies to cache even now:

> Note that unless certain specific conditions are fulfilled, shared
> caches (like caching proxies) will not cache HTTP-authenticated pages.

Francois




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