On 13/06/2015 2:08 a.m., Julianne Bielski wrote:
> I have a general question about the use of the http Host request header by
> reverse proxies.
>
> As I understand it, the Host request header is used by transparent forward
> proxies as a way to route a request to the correct
> origin server since
On Friday 12 June 2015 at 17:49:38 (EU time), Julianne Bielski wrote:
> With virtual hosting, the client is asking for a virtual origin server's
> host and DNS enables the ip address for the physical host to respond. The
> virtual host still sees "its" hostname in the host header, not the physical
rver doesn't see its Host name,
it sees the proxy's, even though the proxy is an http client with respect
to the origin server.
From: Antony Stone
To: squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org
Date: 06/12/2015 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] reverse proxies and Host request
On Friday 12 June 2015 at 16:08:59 (EU time), Julianne Bielski wrote:
> reverse proxies are always "transparent" from the perspective of
> the client and the Host header is often used by the proxy
> to map to the correct back end origin server.
>
> I also think they usually pass the Host header a
I have a general question about the use of the http Host request header by
reverse proxies.
As I understand it, the Host request header is used by transparent forward
proxies as a way to route a request to the correct
origin server since, unlike with an explicit proxy, the host is not
included in
