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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.