title: Getting Authorization part of request header in python cgi script in Apache
body: <p>I'm developing a simple python (v 2.7) CGI script (running apache 2.4.9 on Windows 64).</p>
  
  <p>It seems like most of the data passed to the CGI script is done through environment variables and there is pretty much a 1 to 1 correspondence between the header fields and the environment variables (Accept-Language turns into HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE, Referer turns into HTTP_REFERER etc.). </p>
  
  <p>I'm sending Authorization header to my script but for some reason not being passed into an environment variable. Do anyone know how to make that happen or how I can get to it in some other way? I can clearly tell from my CGI log and my web browser that the header field is in there, it's just not being made available to the script.</p>