https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59174
--- Comment #6 from Philippe Mouawad <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Felix Schumacher from comment #5) > Current tree didn't work anymore (I had tested it, of course :). Problem for > java client was a missing "Basic " on the authorization header, that got > dropped while conversion to Base64 implementation. > Thanks for fixing it. My bad > Now to the problem originally discussed here. > > This problem was discussed on the mailing list, so it seems that at least > for someone it was a real problem. The usual workaround is to set a host > header manually. That works for java client, only. > > But this setup has a few drawbacks. > * It doesn't work for hc4.x (you seem to have found a way to partially > support it) > * One has to use a strange setup for authorization > * It probably will not work with kereberos (because of the strange setup) > * The header setup is complicated > > Therefore I think the way to go is to add a way to setup a fake dns > resolver, so that one can use the desired hostname while speaking to the > real server name. I still don't get the use case. Is it when you're not on the target infrastructure and you need to simulate it ? Localhost or another host mimicing example.org ? Anyway ok for your idea which will be useful in other areas. thanks -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
