Thanks for getting to this so soon.  As soon as the ticket is closed, I'll
be sure to give it a quick test with the proxy I am using.  Thanks again.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 1:40 PM Andy LoPresto <[email protected]> wrote:

> Matt meant to link to this Jira [1]. We will be writing a blog and
> updating the documentation guides in addition to the new property.
>
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4761
>
> Andy LoPresto
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> On Jan 10, 2018, at 5:54 AM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Robert, James, All,
>
> NiFi has been updated to be a little more strict regarding incoming HTTP
> requests. If the Host header does not comply with an expected value, the
> request is rejected. Currently, the expected value comes from those .host
> properties. What's happening is the proxy is likely passing through all
> incoming header values. When NiFi sees the request, it appears as those it
> was not meant for it so it's rejected. I believe there are two valid
> options here:
>
> 1) Remove the Host header at the proxy. This should allow it to explicitly
> set it to the NiFi Host when issuing the request instead of passing through
> the incoming value.
> 2) Update NiFi to allow whitelisting of expected Host values like we did
> for context paths. I've created a JIRA for this option [1].
>
> We'll make sure these get appropriately documented for folks running
> behind a proxy.
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-4501
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:00 AM, Robert R. Bruno <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> James,
>>
>> Funny enough I was thinking of the same hack, but as you said sounds a
>> bit nasty.  Hopefully there is a better solution.  Also for me, I may not
>> always have local admin rights on my client machine which I believe is
>> required to change the hosts file.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Robert
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 00:18 James Wing <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Robert,
>>>
>>> I had the same problem.  One workaround I have used was to add the DNS
>>> name to the /etc/hosts file with a local IP address, so that I could
>>> configure that name in nifi.web.http.host and NiFi would still bind to the
>>> right IP.  It sounds like a nasty hack now that I describe it, but it
>>> worked.
>>>
>>> Perhaps someone else knows a more elegant configuration?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Robert R. Bruno <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just ran into this as well while trying out 1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.
>>>>
>>>> What is the solution where you are running nifi behind a proxy?  I
>>>> tried setting nifi.web.http.host to my proxy ip but then nifi attempted to
>>>> bind to this ip address.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully I am missing something.  If not any chance a config value for
>>>> allowed proxies before the release?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017, 19:26 Mike Thomsen <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks. Is that documented?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a recent change introduced in 1.5.0-SNAPSHOT (master). You
>>>>>> can resolve this by setting nifi.web.http.host in nifi.properties to the
>>>>>> value of SERVER_HERE.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andy LoPresto
>>>>>> [email protected]
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Dec 15, 2017, at 3:32 PM, Mike Thomsen <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I get this error after I installed a new build:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The request contained an invalid host header [SERVER_IP:8080] in the
>>>>>> request [/]. Check for request manipulation or third-party intercept.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the logs it says:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2017-12-15 18:34:59,937 WARN [NiFi Web Server-66]
>>>>>> o.a.n.w.s.HostHeaderSanitizationCustomizer Request host header
>>>>>> [SERVER_HERE:8080] different from web hostname [(:8080)]. Overriding to
>>>>>> [:8080/nifi/]
>>>>>> 2017-12-15 18:34:59,938 WARN [NiFi Web Server-66]
>>>>>> o.a.nifi.web.server.HostHeaderHandler Request host header
>>>>>> [SERVER_HERE:8080] different from web hostname [localhost(:8080)].
>>>>>> Overriding to [localhost:8080/nifi/]
>>>>>> 2017-12-15 18:35:00,059 WARN [NiFi Web Server-59]
>>>>>> o.a.n.w.s.HostHeaderSanitizationCustomizer Request host header
>>>>>> [SERVER_HERE:8080] different from web hostname [(:8080)]. Overriding to
>>>>>> [:8080/favicon.ico]
>>>>>> 2017-12-15 18:35:00,059 WARN [NiFi Web Server-59]
>>>>>> o.a.nifi.web.server.HostHeaderHandler Request host header
>>>>>> [SERVER_HERE:8080] different from web hostname [localhost(:8080)].
>>>>>> Overriding to [localhost:8080/favicon.ico]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Never saw this with 1.4 and earlier. Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>
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