On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 02:56:52PM +0100, Ortwin Gl?ck wrote:
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> Oleg Kalnichevski wrote:
> >Odi,
> >
> >I have no problem with being wrong. The hard fact there's no such
> >thing as a 'virtual' port in the HTTP spec, so I do not see a reason for
> >inventing one.
> 
> What would you call the optional port in the Host header then? If the 
> server was able to figure that out on its own it would not be necessary.
>

The explicit port in the Host header is used in case the target port number
is not equal to that of the default protocol port


> > There is a clear-cut interface how to request resources
> >from a target server via a proxy, which to my knowledge does not involve
> >virtual ports either
> 
> Please read the description of the ProxyPass directive in the Apache 
> HTTPD docs. It does not use the proxy protocol (the name is misleading). 
> It merely forwards the request to a different server and relays its 
> response to the client. Normally the two Apache processes are on the 
> same machine. Anyway that was just an example. I don't know what Jasper 
> is doing exactly.

I fail to see any reference to the Host header in this directive

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass

Oleg

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