First: I may be able to convince the powers-that-be to use a different header/server variable for this purpose as my reading of the RewriteCond docs implies that what is currently wanted is not possible. Hijacking HTTP_PROXY_CONNECTION does not look like too big a hit on my karma. Second: escaping out to Perl via RewriteMap and prg: will be frowned upon for speed/uniformity reasons. So finally: when a request hits our apache server and the request includes the header x-vc-https with value "on" then how might I append "SECURE=1" to the query string and then redirect the entire new request to http://localhost:8071/$ENTIRE_NEW_REQUEST -- Carter's Compass: I know I'm on the right track when, by deleting something, I'm adding functionality. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx