Hello,

I'd like to use a proxy in front of Jetty for HTTP and HTTPS which merely 
proxies the TCP/IP stream. But I'd like to know the original client address.

HAProxy has defined a "PROXY protocol" [0] which adds a small header at the 
beginning of the connection. I don't think Jetty supports it, but looking at 
the code, it should be possible to write something which uses a similar 
technique to org.eclipse.jetty.io.ssl.SslConnection to intercept the stream, 
remove the header, passing on the rest of the data and make the client address 
available to code in the request handler.

Before I write some code, I wonder if anyone can spot any flaws in my plan:

 * Is SslConnection the right thing to model this on?

 * What's the best way of configuring the server to use it? (I'm creating the 
server programatically rather than using the XML configuration.)

 * Why is the code to find the NPN extension in the SSL ClientHello for SPDY 
implemented as a .jar file you have to preload to override the platform SSL 
classes, rather than getting SslConnection to decode the ClientHello before 
passing it on to the Java SSLEngine? (which would also is a nice opportunity to 
implement SNI) Is there a disadvantage to this style of implementation?

Thanks,

Ben


[0] http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt




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