Strange Apache behavior while using website as proxy server (without installing mod_proxy)

[Ravi <ravikapoor101@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a strange problem and I cannot find any documentation around it.
I have two virtual host defined as follows:

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *>
	ServerName www.mydomain.com
	DocumentRoot C:/mydomain/www
</VirtualHost>


<VirtualHost *>
	ServerName proxy.mydomain.com
	DocumentRoot C:/mydomain/proxy
</VirtualHost>


Now I configured www.mydomain.com as http proxy server in my browser and 
go to a random website website http://www.randomsite.com/index.html

1. Browser sends proxy request to www.mydomain.com and apache loads 
http://www.mydomain.com/index.html. I found no explanation of this 
behavior. I could not find any documentation on how it handles proxy 
requests if mod_proxy is not installed.

2. Secondly if I configure proxy.mydomain.com as proxy server, apache is 
still loading the website from http://www.mydomain.com/index.html 
instead of http://proxy.mydomain.com/index.html. Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks for helping
- Ravi


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