how to get the email stored in the x-vouch-user header as a variable in my app?

[brokeDude2901]

My case:
mysite.com:9090/vouch_proxy_path
mysite.com:8443 (java 8 dropwizard backend)

Expected flow:
step1. vouch-proxy Google login success
step2. send POST request to mysite.com:8443/register
to create a new $username as vouch-proxy Google email and generate $password, then store in server file user.json
step3. user now able to speak to server via HTTP authorization header

Problem is i dont know how to get Google email as variable in step2. Any help would be nice :)

[bnfinet]

@brokeDude2901 what generates the POST? Is that the browser or a server process?

If it's the browser then you'll need to get the header from an xhr request to the current URL 'with credentials'. The response will give you the header.

If it's the server then that's documented in 'config.yml_example'

[bnfinet]

Here's how to pass the x-vouch-user from NGINX which in the case of Google will hold the email..
#421 (comment)

And this shows how to use it from a SPA / browser based request (XHR)..
#416 (comment)

[brokeDude2901]

Thanks for the assist, it sure help ! For those having same problem, all i did was:

In nginx.conf file your server block:
proxy_set_header Client-Email $auth_resp_x_vouch_user;

and for java dropwizard:
String username = requestContext.getHeaders().getFirst("Client-Email");