I'm confused.
what does this patch give you that the following header lines
(sent in the r-proxied request) give you
X-Forwarded-For: 10.16.90.69
X-Forwarded-Host: news.online.com:8051
X-Forwarded-Server: news.online.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:27 AM
> To: Apache .Org Mod_Proxy
> Subject: patch: proxy-preserve-host
>
>
> In the current code you can't reverse proxy to virtual hosts
> or any other
> host that relies on a host header because the original host header is
> deleted and a new host header is created using the proxy's idea of the
> hostname. This patch creates a config option called
> ProxyPreserveHost which
> allows you to tell apache to send the original host header
> instead of a new
> one.
>
> Might anyone else be interested in this patch or is my case unique?
>
> It's really only useful during reverse proxying and not during regular
> proxying so do you think that I should only enable the option if
> ProxyRequests is not on? Or, better yet, should I detect if a certain
> proxied request is reverse and not regular and only then preserve the
> original host header? If so, then what's a good way to distinguish the
> reverse from the regular proxied request?
>
> Additionally, I'll may be using this in a production
> environment so I'd
> really appreciate knowing of any potential bugs that anyone might see.
> Anyone have any other suggestions?
>
> - Gabriel Russell
>
> (See attached file: proxy-preserve-host.diff)
>
