For HTTP 1.1 you should use the Host: urlhost[:urlport] form. AFAICS these are the simplest possible proxy requests:
HTTP 1.0: GET http://www.ibm.com/ HTTP/1.0 <cr><cr> HTTP 1.1: GET http://www.ibm.com/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.ibm.com <cr><cr> Chuck On Friday, March 29, 2002, at 02:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Actually: > >> The problem I'm encountering is that ab(1) generates Host: header >> pointing to proxy server instead of real destination host. >> Due to this behavior, proxy server (not mod_proxy, BTW) is failing >> to send a valid HTTP request to destintion webserver using name-based >> virtualhost, as it simply passes Host: header with its (proxy >> server's) hostname in it. > > I am double checking the spec. To verify what exactly should be send - > as > one could also have to consider a proxy on a vhost. > > To summarize, in the case of a PROXY we have > > proxyhost + proxyport > full URL (http://urlhost:urlport/foo) (or ftp, etc) > > and we do > > connect to proxyhost, proxyport > then say 'GET full-URL HTTP...' > > And now the question is, do we do > > Host: proxyhost [:proxyport] > or > Host: urlhost[:urlport] > or > <nil> (i.e. explictly NO Host:). > > Dw >
