Actually, I've just seen the following in the Django mailing lists: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg33992.html
Looks like the option to select the last item is deliberate. On Jun 25, 3:15 pm, delboy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We've an application that uses url_for in controllers and views. In > views, url_for generates a relative url (as if :only_path where used). > All is fine there. > > However, in controllers, url_for generates a full url, with the host > name. This causes problems when we have a chain of Apache proxy > servers: > > My Browser ---> Proxy 1 ----> Proxy 2 ----> Phusion Deployment Server. > > In this scenario, the request header item HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST > contains the following: > > proxy1:81, proxy2 > > Rails extracts the host by splitting this string and getting the last > item: > > (actionpack-2.3.2\lib\action_controller\request.rb line 271) > > def raw_host_with_port > if forwarded = env["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST"] > forwarded.split(/,\s?/).last > else > env['HTTP_HOST'] || "#{env['SERVER_NAME'] || env > ['SERVER_ADDR']}:#{env['SERVER_PORT']}" > end > end > > What happens is that we get proxy2 as the host. > > Shouldn't it be trying to get the first item instead - > > forwarded.split(/,\s?/).first > > giving us proxy1:81 instead? > > Is this a bug? If not, is there reasoning behind this? > > Derek. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
