Hi, I'm looking for suggestions on the simplest way to implement an HTTP proxy under Rails/Mongrel. It should preserve ALL of the proxied HTTP response - including all header content such keepalives, etc.
Yes, I know I can do this with Apache's proxy module, and we already do that for the non-development/test environments. This is just for the development/test environment where we don't run Apache, just Mongrel. Background: This is to support the usage of the Jspell AJAX-based spellchecker tool. This requires AJAX requests to be made to the JSpell server, which is a Java servlet. However, since it's AJAX, the responses from the JSpell server must be served from the same host as the rest of the rails app (whether or not this is absolutely necessary, it's a hardcoded requirement in the obfuscated jspell javascript). We've tried to write a Rails controller which uses Net::HTTP to make the call to the proxied Jspell server, then maually build a response. However, this approach always seems to result in invalid response headers that the Jspell javascript doesn't like. My guess is that it's something do to with the keepalive not being settable, as discussed here: http://lists.netisland.net/archives/phillyonrails/phillyonrails-2006/msg00231.html So, what I want is to simply proxy the entire response, headers and all, without rails or mongrel changing anything. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, -- Chad Woolley _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
