Hi Markus,

I'm already added jetty-proxy in the Pax Web and Karaf features.

I just mentioned a workaround waiting for new Pax Web/Karaf releases.

Regards
JB

On 10/06/2019 17:55, Markus Rathgeb wrote:
> Hi JB,
> 
>> First, you can use the ProxyService directly to programmatically create
>> the proxies you need.
> 
> I read the proxy service of the Karaf project but this does not fit to
> my use-case.
> I use a subclass of Jetty's proxy servlet because the "proxyTo" is not fixed.
> It depends on the caller of the URL which backend is used to generate
> the response for the request.
> 
> Think about a system where an user needs to be logged in first.
> The login credentials are used to choose the real backend system.
> 
> If user 1 calls httsp://some.thing/foo/bar the "reverse proxy"
> redirects the request to https://10.10.10.101/foo/bar
> If user 2 calls httsp://some.thing/foo/bar the "reverse proxy"
> redirects the request to https://10.10.10.102/foo/bar
> ...
> 
> So my servlet is a subclass of the proxy servlet that generated the
> URL for the rewrite target in a very dynamic way.
> 
> And it is already working it is just some additional work to align the
> Jetty version on every Karaf bump.
> 
>> About the version, it's actually the opposite: the Jetty proxy is a pure
>> servlet, and a version of Jetty proxy can work with other Jetty version.
> 
> Sure, the proxy is just a servlet but the implementation is using a
> e.g. Jetty HttpClient:
> 
> * 
> https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/jetty-9.4.18.v20190429/jetty-proxy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/proxy/AbstractProxyServlet.java#L43
> * 
> https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/jetty-9.4.18.v20190429/jetty-proxy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/proxy/AbstractProxyServlet.java#L129
> * 
> https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/blob/jetty-9.4.18.v20190429/jetty-proxy/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/proxy/AbstractProxyServlet.java#L273
> 
> If the Jetty proxy servlet implementation is newer then the Jetty HTTP
> Client the proxy servlet implementation could potentially use
> functions that are not yet present in the provided HttpClient
> implementation.
> If strong semver is used a newer HTTP Client should still support all
> stuff used by the proxy servlet but how knows...
> 
> 
> The Jetty proxy artifact is already an OSGi bundle, so what's the "big
> win" to add its classes to every bundle as private package instead of
> adding the jetty-proxy bundle to the OSGi runtime?
> 
> Thank you for your patient,
> Markus
> 

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