On Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 01:02 PM, Daniel Lopez wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:16:10AM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: >> Daniel Lopez wrote: >> >>> I need an additional hook to process headers before they are sent to >>> the >>> origin server in a reverse proxy configuration. >> >> Use mod_headers for this - it was modified to handle this behavior a >> while back. > > client <---> apache with reverse proxy <--> origin server > > mod_headers allows modification of headers between client and apache, > but > not headers between proxy and origin server. > >> Adding hooks to proxy is bad, because it means that this functionality >> is limited to proxy, and is not available to the rest of the server. > > But this is proxy specific functionality :) > Yes, this is specifically used by the proxy's "client side", connecting to an origin server. Sorry I was not clearer the first time. The sweet way to do this would be having the ability to set up a second filter chain on the client side. It seems hard to justify doing that work only for the proxy though. Chuck
