Removing this rule entirely, because it's not meaningful. It relies on

REMOTE_IDENT. Browsers stopped sending REMOTE_IDENT 15 years ago, and
even when they did, it wasn't trustworthy.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@832952 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html.en b/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html.en
index b20e8d67ed889f16e6d0ee54bd27b95e974c6f86..fabc450ea70dfb689387e0d092b568f9fbc9341e 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html.en
+++ b/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html.en
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@
 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#autorefresh">Document With Autorefresh</a></li>
 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#mass-virtual-hosting">Mass Virtual Hosting</a></li>
 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxy-deny">Proxy Deny</a></li>
-<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#special-authentication">Special Authentication Variant</a></li>
 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#referer-deflector">Referer-based Deflector</a></li>
 </ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">Module
 documentation</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">mod_rewrite
@@ -1246,38 +1245,6 @@ RewriteRule !^http://[^/.]\.mydomain.com.*  - [F]
 
     </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
 <div class="section">
-<h2><a name="special-authentication" id="special-authentication">Special Authentication Variant</a></h2>
-
-      
-
-      <dl>
-        <dt>Description:</dt>
-
-        <dd>
-          <p>Sometimes very special authentication is needed, for
-          instance authentication which checks for a set of
-          explicitly configured users. Only these should receive
-          access and without explicit prompting (which would occur
-          when using Basic Auth via <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_basic.html">mod_auth_basic</a></code>).</p>
-        </dd>
-
-        <dt>Solution:</dt>
-
-        <dd>
-          <p>We use a list of rewrite conditions to exclude all except
-          our friends:</p>
-
-<div class="example"><pre>
-RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^friend1@client1.quux-corp\.com$</strong>
-RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^friend2</strong>@client2.quux-corp\.com$
-RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^friend3</strong>@client3.quux-corp\.com$
-RewriteRule ^/~quux/only-for-friends/      -                                 [F]
-</pre></div>
-        </dd>
-      </dl>
-
-    </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
-<div class="section">
 <h2><a name="referer-deflector" id="referer-deflector">Referer-based Deflector</a></h2>
 
       

diff --git a/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.xml b/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.xml
index eba14b6bd03917c4d36e105abc25615734532f2c..c069e8b03576404d5be424b02bd7b9fd5dbf2102 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/rewrite/rewrite_guide.xml
@@ -1238,38 +1238,6 @@ RewriteRule !^http://[^/.]\.mydomain.com.*  - [F]
 
     </section>
 
-    <section id="special-authentication">
-
-      <title>Special Authentication Variant</title>
-
-      <dl>
-        <dt>Description:</dt>
-
-        <dd>
-          <p>Sometimes very special authentication is needed, for
-          instance authentication which checks for a set of
-          explicitly configured users. Only these should receive
-          access and without explicit prompting (which would occur
-          when using Basic Auth via <module>mod_auth_basic</module>).</p>
-        </dd>
-
-        <dt>Solution:</dt>
-
-        <dd>
-          <p>We use a list of rewrite conditions to exclude all except
-          our friends:</p>
-
-<example><pre>
-RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^friend1@client1.quux-corp\.com$</strong>
-RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^friend2</strong>@client2.quux-corp\.com$
-RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^friend3</strong>@client3.quux-corp\.com$
-RewriteRule ^/~quux/only-for-friends/      -                                 [F]
-</pre></example>
-        </dd>
-      </dl>
-
-    </section>
-
     <section id="referer-deflector">
 
       <title>Referer-based Deflector</title>