Is any of this header rewriting already on Ralf's TODO list for mod_rewrite?
Does it make sense to make mod_headers more complex? Or to add these
features to mod_rewrite already?
Just throwing the idea out there.
This is an interesting module though.
At 09:56 AM 7/11/00 -0700, Tim Bishop wrote:
>I am running a 3-tier mod_perl setup as advised by the Guide:
>
> Lightweight apache <-> mod_perl apache <-> db server.
>
>One of the problems with this setup is that the mod_perl apache no longer
>knows some details about the client request, like the client IP.
>
>I used Ask Bjoern Hansen's module proxy_add_forward, which adds a
>"X-Forwarded-For" header to to the request as it is forwarded to the
>mod_perl apache server.
>
>After I added SSL to my lightweight (but gaining!) apache, I found
>I needed some SSL connection information on the mod_perl server as well.
>
>I recently fell in love with mod_rewrite, and so I ported some of its
>capabilities to mod_headers
>
>The attached patch
> (cd apache_1.3.XX; patch -p1 < ProxyHeaderRewrite.patch; make install)
>will add two commands to mod_headers:
>
> HeaderRewrite - dynamically set headers for the client
> ProxyHeaderRewrite - dynamically set headers for the upstream proxy
> server
>
>While the original mod_headers would allow you so say:
>
>Header append Foo "burfl"
>
>Now you can say
>
>HeaderRewrite append Foo "%{ENV:BURFL}", using the full RewriteCond syntax
>
>
>
>My current lightweight apache server config looks something like:
>
>ProxyHeaderRewrite append X-Forwarded-For "%{REMOTE_ADDR}"
>ProxyHeaderRewrite append X-Frontend-Host "%{HTTP_HOST}"
><VirtualHost _default_:443>
> ...
> SSLOptions StdEnvVars
> ProxyHeaderRewrite append X-SSL-Cipher "%{ENV:SSL_PROTOCOL}
> %{ENV:SSL_CIPHER}"
></VirtualHost>
>
>
>Did I miss another way to do this? Is this patch useful?
>
>
>BTW,
>
>the Guide on server architecture:
>http://perl.apache.org/guide/strategy.html
>
>Ask Bjoern Hansen's module proxy_add_forward
>http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/ABH/mod_proxy_add_forward.c
>
>
>-Tim
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