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 as-is to the origin server.
> This last piece puzzles me because it means that the origin server is being
> given a different host name than itself in the header. Is this behavior
> "correct"? Does it ever cause problems?
How is this different from a normal web server serving multiple virtual host
sites?
The web server doesn't care who "it" is, it just cares which virtual host it's
being asked to serve pages for. A reverse proxy in the way basically makes no
difference.
Regards,
Antony.
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