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Subject: Re: Passing authentication
From: Stephen Bartell <snbartell@gmail.com>
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Jeff, the auth is in the headers.

Using externals, your node app will get the request, which will contain =
the headers, which will contain the auth.  Have the app pick the auth =
bits out of the headers and plug them into the headers of the new =
requests it is about to make.

On Mar 12, 2013, at 5:08 PM, Jeff Charette <iomatix@yahoo.com> wrote:

> How do you pass authentication to an outside process?  Is there a way =
to do this with headers?
>=20
> My use case is to use externals to pass an already authenticated =
request directly to node then have node act as that user on the users =
documents.
>=20
> Jeff Charette | Principal=20
> We Are Charette
> web / identity / packaging
>=20
> m  415.298.2707
> w  wearecharette.com
> e   jeffrey@wearecharette.com