The code that does the header removal is here: https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/blob/2.2/modules/org.restlet/src/org/restlet/routing/Redirector.java#L405-L413
If you're confident that that's what you want, you can extend Redirector and override serverRedirect to do everything it normally *except* remove those headers. --tim On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Primož Kokol <[email protected]>wrote: > I am trying to create a transparent reverse proxy using > org.restlet.routing.Redirector. > > For the sake of simplicity let's say all I want to do is to redirect all > requests pointing at > > http://localhost:80 > > to be dispatched to another unrelated server: > > http://localhost:8080 > > I've wrote a simple reverse proxy using Redirector (MODE_SERVER_OUTBOUND > mode) and it actually works as expected in the sense that it dispatches > requests properly and also handles redirects. > > But now let's say that resources at http://localhost:8080 are protected > with Digest authentication mechanism. > > Now the problem is that headers in requests and responses when handled by > Redirector are removed which makes Digest authentication mechanism unusable. > > From docs WRT MODE_SERVER_OUTBOUND: > ---- > Note that in this mode, the headers of HTTP requests, stored in the > request's attributes, are removed before dispatching. Also, when a HTTP > response comes back the headers are also removed. > ---- > > Is there any way to leave headers intact so that end server ( > http://localhost:8080) and clients could communicate as there is no proxy > in between? > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3076621 > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3076672
