Hi again, My next try was to remove all original headers (like default implementation do) and then preserver only Authentication header.
So I replaced this line: https://github.com/restlet/restlet-framework-java/blob/2.2/modules/org.restlet/src/org/restlet/routing/Redirector.java#L407 with call to this method: private void preserveHeaders(Request request) { Series<Header> headers = (Series<Header>) request.getAttributes().get(HeaderConstants.ATTRIBUTE_HEADERS); Series<Header> newHeaders = new Series<Header>(Header.class); for (String headerName : headersToPreserve) { Header headerToPreserve = headers.getFirst(headerName); if (headerToPreserve != null) { newHeaders.add(headerToPreserve); } } request.getAttributes().put(HeaderConstants.ATTRIBUTE_HEADERS, newHeaders); } where headersToPreserve = Arrays.asList(HeaderConstants.HEADER_AUTHORIZATION) After this change, the response from proxy is always: HTTP/1.1 1002 Internal Connector Error Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:01:10 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Server: Restlet-Framework/2.1.4 Content-Length: 484 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 I am somehow abandoning the idea of using Restlet as a transparent reverse proxy, but anyway, I've attached a small example of test implementation if someone will have time and willpower to look at it. Tim, thank you for your support! Any advices on how could I achieve Digest/Basic authentication to work on backend server when in front of it is a proxy are still welcome. ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=3076691
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