André, Torsten Thank you for your answer (sorry for the delay)
No, Andre, your are not impertinent. I thought I had a problem related to the request scheme, but in fact, my httpd configuration was wrong !!! 2008/7/1 Torsten Foertsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue 01 Jul 2008, titetluc titetluc wrote: > > I am writing an handler generating sub-requests by using the lookup_uri > and > > run (Apache2::SubRequest) methods. > > My question is : is it technically possible to generate HTTPS sub-request > > (I observed that sub-requests were using HTTP) > > No, none of the protocols is used to make subreqs. HTTP/HTTPS are network > protocols. With subreqs there is no network. A subreq is like a recursive > call of the same request answering machine. Hence, HTTPS? is irrelevant. > Normally the document accessed via a subreq has to be accessible locally. > > > using the mod_perl API ? If > > yes, which API do I have to use (I can not find any examples, or I tried > > the APR::URI class but unsuccessfully) ? > > If not, which solution is possible (using LWP ?) > > But it can be any kind of document apache can serve. So it can be a regular > file, something dynamically created (CGI/PHP/modperl etc) or even a > document > for which the current server acts as proxy. > > So in your case I see 2 options: > > 1) implement the included document via a CGI/modperl handler using LWP or > similar > > 2) use mod_proxy as reverse proxy > > In both cases it's not possible to proxy an established SSL identity > (client > certificate) to the backend server due to the nature of SSL. Nor can your > client verify the identity of the backend. > > If possible I'd go for the mod_proxy version. 1) it doesn't load perl > routines > in memory. 2) it passes the data an almost as fast as possible whereas > homegrown LWP solutions tend to buffer the whole document before sending > any > output. > > But mod_proxy has also drawbacks. It is very difficult to make a POST > request > to the backend this way and feed it some data. I once had a similar problem > when I wanted to include a proxied document and pass on the POST input of > the > original request to the backend. In the end I did it in Perl. > > Torsten > > -- > Need professional mod_perl support? > Just hire me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
