From: "Chuck Murcko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 2:32 PM
> 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. Daniel's proposed hook would be the perfect point to allow you to insert yourself into the origin filter chain, given the right args. No? We should already have two filter chains, one that proxy retrieves the content from, and one that the server is using to fulfill the request. [Except, perhaps, with a straight-through CONNECT proxy.] Bill
