On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I run an instance of lighttpd for cgit behind nginx (nginx > doesn't execute CGI). So the port (SERVER_PORT=33333) that > lighttpd runs on sends to cgit is different from the standard > port 80 that public clients connect to (via nginx). > > This was causing the Atom feed URL to show the private port > number that lighttpd was running on. > > Since the HTTP/1.1 "Host" header includes the port number if > running on a non-standard port, it allows non-client-facing HTTP > servers to transparently generate public URLs that clients can > see. This makes a lot of sense, thanks for the detailed description. > So use the "Host" header if it is available and fall back to > SERVER_NAME/SERVER_PORT for some clients that don't set > HTTP_HOST. Maybe it would be better to use a new cgitrc parameter as fallback if the client doesn't provide the "Host" header? -- larsh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
