we are planning to do something similar to this we are developing a module which could set apache notes, based on various things, these would append themselves to the headers_in in the form X_NOTE_notename: value for the application server.
good to know we aren't the only ones with the idea ..ian > -----Original Message----- > From: Chuck Murcko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wed, May 02, 2001 3:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fwd: mod_proxy patches for HTTP Header manipulation > > > Recent. > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Kwindla Hultman Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed May 02, 2001 04:36:42 PM US/Eastern > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: mod_proxy patches for HTTP Header manipulation > > > > > > Hi, > > > > Please forgive me (and point me in the right direction) if > I should be > > sending this to a development list, or to someone else, > rather than to > > you... > > > > First of all, thank you for your work on mod_proxy. We depend on it > > for our production servers at http://allafrica.com. > > > > I've written some code for mod_proxy that adds the ability to set > > headers, both for upstream proxy requests and for responses back to > > clients. Four new configuration directives are added: > > > > ProxyRequestHeader > > ProxyResponseHeader > > ProxyResponseExpiresVector > > CacheFreshenDate > > > > The first two are a lot like the Header directive from > mod_headers, in > > that they allow you to set|unset|add|append to a given header. They > > also take an optional regular expression argument, which is matched > > against r->uri to control application of the directive. > > > > The last two are special-purpose directives that control the setting > > of Expires/Cache-Control and Date headers, respectively. They also > > take optional regular expressions to limit their application at > > request time. > > > > All four directives are valid in both base and virtual server > > configurations, and are merged/applied so that the right thing (tm) > > happens. > > > > I have put up patches, both to the sources and to the documentation > > html page, at http://allafrica.com/tools/apache/mod_proxy/. > > > > If you believe that this functionality would be generally > useful as a > > part of mod_proxy, please let me know what I can do to pave the way > > for any integration. > > > > Thank you, > > Kwindla Hultman Kramer > > > > > > Chuck Murcko > Topsail Group > http://www.topsail.org/ >
