I hope someone from the official dev team can merge this into the next release of apache httpd.
Please find attached an svn diff made against revision 820823 of: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/modules/mappers/mod_rewrite.c This diff fixes the Bug 29744 on the Bugzilla: Bug: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47928 Patch: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=24329 This fix allows mod_rewrite to handle CONNECT requests (by not trying to fully qualify the substitution string). The current behavior is that mod_rewrite tries to connect to http[s]://ourhost[:ourport]/host:port. I checked with the RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2817.txt): A CONNECT method requests that a proxy establish a tunnel connection on its behalf. The Request-URI portion of the Request-Line is always an 'authority' as defined by URI Generic Syntax [2], which is to say the host name and port number destination of the requested connection separated by a colon: CONNECT server.example.com:80 HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com:80 This patch will allow a CONNECT request to simply connect to the host:port specified in the substitution string of the rewrite rule. Hopefully this is enough detail to help. Thank you, BillZ
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