On 5/22/07, Dragon <dragon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Before asking my question, I need to explain a little about what I am trying to do. I have a reverse proxy set up in Apache 2.0.54 using the instructions detailed in http://www.apachetutor.org/admin/reverseproxies It works great for the most part but I have one little thing that causes me some problems in the Rails application I am proxying. The problem revolves around some internal redirects the application does that I am currently "fixing" by hard coding the URL as seen from the outside world into the application where it does these page redirects. This is not an ideal solution as it breaks things if I access the application directly instead of through the proxy. What I want to be able to do is to inform the application that it is being accessed through the proxy so it can programmatically determine the correct redirect URL regardless of how it is being accessed. Essentially what I want to do is somehow pass the actual request URL through the proxy to the application so it can dynamically fix the URL to access the correct page. So my question is this, is there some (easy?) way through either HTTP headers or some other mechanism that I can inform the application that it is being accessed through the proxy?
First question: Why aren't you just letting ProxyPassReverse do its job? It should be able to handle rewriting of redirects. Anyway, if you want the origin server to know that stuff went through the proxy, there are lots of clues in the request headers by default. Take a look at X-Forwarded-For, etc. Or you can always add your own header: RequestHeader Set X-Went-Through-Proxy Yes Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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