quick'n'dirty apache2 authenticated http proxy

001-proxy.conf

# quick'n'dirty apache2 authenticated proxy
# do not forget to a2enmod auth_digest , proxy , proxy_*

ProxyRequests On
ProxyVia Off

<Directory /var/www/html>
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
<Proxy "*">
Require valid-user
AuthType Digest
AuthName "proxy"
#AuthDigestDomain / http://mirror.my.dom/private2/

AuthDigestProvider file
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/auth.digest

#host internal.example.com
</Proxy>

<Location />
Require valid-user
</Location>

server.py

#flask server script to test headers.

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

from flask import request

@app.route('/')
def index():
    print request.headers
    rt= "route: "+str(request.access_route)+" ; x-forwarded-for: '"+str(request.headers.getlist("X-Forwarded-For"))+"'"
    print rt
    return rt