getRemoteUser() return null when refresh Vaadin Push UI.

Vaadin 6 / 7 / 8
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Hi,

I’m using apache as reverse proxy and use tomcat as backend application server.
I want to get user name that authenticated by apache’s basic authentication in my Vaadin application.

I implemented my Vaadin UI as follow.

@Push
public class MyVaadinUI extends UI
{
    @Override
    protected void init(VaadinRequest request) {
        final VerticalLayout layout = new VerticalLayout();
        layout.setMargin(true);
        setContent(layout);
        
        Label l = new Label("User : " + VaadinService.getCurrentRequest().getRemoteUser());
        layout.addComponent(l);
   
}

And I configured apache and tomcat as follow.

apache

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass      /myapp/PUSH/      ws://localhost:8080/myapp/PUSH/
ProxyPassReverse       /myapp/PUSH/      ws://localhost:8080/myapp/PUSH/
ProxyPass      /myapp/   ajp://localhost:8009/myapp/
ProxyPassReverse       /myapp/   ajp://localhost:8009/myapp/

<Location "/">
       AuthType Basic
       AuthName "Auth"
       AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/.htpasswd
       Require valid-user
</Location>

tomcat

<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8443" tomcatAuthentication="false" />

<Connector port="8080" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8443"
                tomcatAuthentication="false" />

When I access http://localhost/myapp/ and enter authentication information, user name I entered is appeared.
But, when I refresh the page by browser refresh button, “User : null” is displayed. The issue is this.
Do you know why I can’t get user name?

When I don’t use “@Push”, this issue does not occur. Is my Push implimentation or configuration wrong?

Best regards,

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Do you have any solution?
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