----- Chris Darroch <chr...@pearsoncmg.com> wrote: > Hi -- > > It's been a remarkably long time since I had anything useful > to commit, and I'm pretty rusty, so I thought I'd throw this out for > discussion as a RTC despite the CTR rules on trunk. I promise I won't > be offended if anyone says it's a stupid hack and should never be > committed, because, well, it is arguably a very stupid hack. > > I've been fighting a context where I have a new server behind > an ancient internal proxy for some transitional period of time until > we can replace the proxy too. The proxy won't send Host headers (in > httpd terms, no equivalent to ProxyPreserveHost On functionality), but > it does put the originally requested Host header into X-Forwarded-Host. > > On the backend, try as I might, I could not find a way to map > the X-Forwarded-Host header on top of the Host one prior to the point > where the appropriate <VirtualHost> is determined. I hoped for > some combo of mod_headers in "early" mode + mod_setenvif, but they > run in post_read_request in the opposite order from what I needed. > > Hence this patch, which adds a UseCanonicalName XHost option in > which X-Forwarded-Host is checked first, and if non-blank, is used > in place of Host to determine the server name. (The Host header is > left as-is, though.) > > http://people.apache.org/~chrisd/patches/use_canonical_name_xhost/use_canonical_name_xhost-trunk.patch > > Even if there's a resounding chorus of "boos", perhaps posting it > here will help others facing the same problem in the future find a bit > of a workaround if they're stuck in the same situation. > > Let the torches and firebrands be set alight! Cheers,
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to hack up^W^Wexpand mod_remoteip? > Chris. > > -- > GPG Key ID: 088335A9 > GPG Key Fingerprint: 86CD 3297 7493 75BC F820 6715 F54F E648 0883 35A9 -- Igor Gali? Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/ GPG: 6880 4155 74BD FD7C B515 2EA5 4B1D 9E08 A097 C9AE
