Why not use Allow All / Deny All rules?

<Location />
... your Auth Type stuff here ...

Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 # Assuming API calls are made locally
Satisfy any
</Location>

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Adam Brenner
Computer Science, Undergraduate Student
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Research Computing Support
Office of Information Technology
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University of California, Irvine
www.ics.uci.edu/~aebrenne/
aebrenne@uci.edu

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Anthonius deBoer <thondeboer@me.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying desperately to setup my GALAXY system so that if you enter the
> website, you need to authenticate yourself using the proxy setup...
> I also would like to be able to BYPASS the proxy server when an API call is
> made...
>
> In the example proxy setting I have setup in the following way:
>
> ReWriteRule ^(/api/histories/.*) http://localhost:8080$1 [P,L]
> ReWriteRule ^(/api/.*) http://localhost:8081$1 [P,L]
> RewriteRule ^(.*) http://localhost:8080$1 [P]
>
> I then setup a <PROXY setting in the apache galaxy.d in
> /etc/httpd/conf.d/galaxy.d to require authentication when a user is
> re-directed to the localhost:8080 and allow the calls to localhost:8081 to
> pass unhindered...
>
> This works brilliantly EXCEPT for when you want to make an API call that
> involves some histories....
> The call fails, since /api/histories calls are routed through the proxy
> server and require authentication, which I want to avoid...
>
> It seems that histories are "special" so they have their own line in the
> configuration file above...
>
> I tried to change
> ReWriteRule ^(/api/histories/.*) http://localhost:8080$1 [P,L]
>
> to
>
> ReWriteRule ^(/api/histories/.*) http://localhost:8081$1 [L]
>
> Which DOES work, but it also breaks the automatic update of the history in
> the webbrowser...
> I have to reload the page manually to update the history...
>
> Is there anyway I can get the automatic update to work again, but don't
> require autentication?
>
> Thanks
>
> Thon
>
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