NAME
Apache::ACEProxy - IDN compatible ACE proxy server
SYNOPSIS
# in httpd.conf
PerlTransHandler Apache::ACEProxy # default uses ::RACE
DESCRIPTION
Apache::ACEProxy is a mod_perl based HTTP proxy server, which handles
internationalized domain names correctly. This module automaticaly
detects IDNs in Host: header and converts them in ACE encoding.
Set your browser's proxy setting to Apache::ACEProxy based server, and
you can browse web-sites of multilingual domain names.
SUBCLASSING
Default ACE encoding is RACE. Here's how you customize this.
* Declare your ACE encoder class (like DUDE, AMC-ACE-Z).
* Inherit from Apache::ACEProxy.
* Define "encode()" class method.
That's all. Here's an example of implementation, extracted from
Apache::ACEProxy::RACE.
package Apache::ACEProxy::RACE;
use base qw(Apache::ACEProxy);
use Convert::RACE qw(to_race);
use Unicode::String qw(utf8);
sub encode {
my($class, $domain) = @_;
return to_race(utf8($domain)->utf16);
}
Not that you should define "encode()" method as a class method. Argument
$domain is a (maybe UTF8) string that your browser sends to the proxy
server.
At last, remember to add the following line to httpd.conf or so:
PerlTransHandler Apache::ACEProxy::RACE
CAVEATS
This module (at least Apache::ACEProxy::RACE) assumes input domain names
are encoded in UTF8. But currently it's known that:
* MSIE's "always send URL as UTF8" preference does NOT ALWAYS send
correct UTF8 string.
* Netscape 4.x does NOT send URL as UTF8, but in local encodings.
So, this proxy server doesn't always work well with all the domains for
all the browsers.
Suggestions, patches and reports are welcome about this fact.
AUTHOR
Tastuhiko Miyagawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
This module comes with NO WARRANTY.
SEE ALSO
the Apache::ProxyPassThru manpage, the LWP::UserAgent manpage, the
Unicode::String manpage, the Apache::ACEProxy::RACE manpage
--
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
