Yes, I have tried out doing that too. Say, I am running my reverse proxy on 10.10.10.10:8888. And I need to proxy 2 web servers 10.10.10.51(on https) and 10.10.10.52(on http).
So in my browser I have to use the address: http://10.10.10.10:8888/index.html to get going through the reverse proxy. When the request comes into my proxy, the 'Host' header will have the value '10.10.10.10:8888' and this will not help me choose which of the two target servers I should send my request to. Also, say if I choose to send the request to the server 10.10.10.51 (which is on https) by default using the HttpClient, and if there is any Redirect to some page say /settings.html, then the Redirect location that gets created is "https://10.10.10.10:8888/settings.html"; which is not right as I wouldn't have https running on the port 8888 on my reverse proxy system. Then I start getting the exception [javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection? ] This happens when I have the Host header in the request while executing it using the HttpClient like httpClient.execute(targetHost, request) even though targetHost instance was created as shown below. targetHost = new HttpHost("10.10.10.51", 443, "https"); However, this works fine when I remove the Host header from the request before executing it. That means, the Host header value supercedes the HttpHost values while creating the Location header value in case of a redirect. I hope the above behavior is correct. Please let me know if there is another way of multiplexing (on the HttpService side) or should I be using the Host header in some other way to achieve this? Thanks, Brijesh -----Original Message----- From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 1:32 PM To: HttpComponents Project Subject: [Junk released by Allow List] Re: How to proxy multiple web servers? On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:24:21AM +0200, Ortwin Gl?ck wrote: > Brijesh Deo wrote: > > So, going by the above > > approach, I would need to run multiple HttpServices on different ports > > to proxy each web server. > > Brijesh, > > Why don't you use the Host header for multiplexing? That's how evey shared > webhosting out there works. > Spot on. Oleg > Cheers, > > Ortwin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
