RewriteRule returns a 301 message to the client, which then does the
actual requesting from the second server.  ProxyPass tells the webserver
to do its own request, passing the information to the client when it
retrievesit from the second server.

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On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Sylvain Maret wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Why is better to use "RewriteRule" than traditionnal "ProxyPass"
> directive ?
> Do you have an example.
> 
> Sylvain
> 
> Michael J Schout wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Joe Ammann wrote:
> > 
> > > Now mod_proxy can obviously not forward https connections. It doesn't
> > > know anything about SSL. And I could not find any information that
> > > such a thing has already been done.
> > 
> > I assume you are talking about mod_proxy on apache?  We use it this way quite a
> > bit actually.  Although, we are using "RewriteRule" directives to do it instead
> > of the traditional "ProxyPass" directives.  E.g.: something like this:
> > 
> > RewriteRule  ^/foo    https://localhost/foo [P]
> > 
> > Works great for us.
> > 
> > Mike
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