Daniel Lopez wrote:

> 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.

Read the following section of the mod_headers manual to find out how to
change the request headers before they are passed to the remote server:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_headers.html#requestheader

> > 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 :)

It isn't.

This same behaviour is useful in mod_jk, mod_webapp, and mod_cgi,
amongst others.

Regards,
Graham
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