2. HTTP Header Fields and Processing Rules

2. HTTP Header Fields and Processing Rules

This document designates the following headers, defined further in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, respectively, to carry the client certificate information of a mutually authenticated TLS connection. The headers convey the information from the reverse proxy to the origin server.

Client-Cert:
The end-entity certificate used by the client in the TLS handshake with the reverse proxy.

Client-Cert-Chain:
The certificate chain used for validation of the end-entity certificate provided by the client in the TLS handshake with the reverse proxy.