Fetching custom Authorization header from incoming PHP request

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Published on 2010-05-25T07:00:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 7:21 UTC
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So I'm trying to parse an incoming request in PHP which has the following header set:

Authorization: Custom Username

Simple question: how on earth do I get my hands on it? If it was Authorization: Basic, I could get the username from $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_USER"]. If it was X-Custom-Authorization: Username, I could get the username from $_SERVER["HTTP_X_CUSTOM_AUTHORIZATION"]. But neither of these are set by a custom Authorization, var_dump($_SERVER) reveals no mention of the header (in particular, AUTH_TYPE is missing), and PHP5 functions like get_headers() only work on responses to outgoing requests. I'm running PHP 5 on Apache with an out-of-the box Ubuntu install.

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