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

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