[Catalyst] RFC for handling reverse proxies not deployed tostandard ports.

[Dylan Vanderhoof]

While this is being looked at, it would be nice to pass along whether
the initial connection was HTTP or HTTPS for uri_for to make use of.  If
the frontend is HTTPS and the backend is HTTP, uri_for breaks unless you
set an env variable (https=on?)

-D

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marlon Bailey [mailto:mbailey at vortexit.net] 
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 9:25 AM
> To: catalyst at lists.rawmode.org
> Subject: [Catalyst] RFC for handling reverse proxies not 
> deployed tostandard ports.
> 
> 
> Current situation:  There is no clean solution for deploying a reverse
> proxy to a nonstandard HTTP(80)/HTTPs(443) port, like port 8080.
> 
> Suggestion:  I'd like to submit a solution that extends the current
> proxy-backend practice of reading the proxy values out of the request
> header.  Currently the client's IP is taken from a "X-Forwarded-For"
> header value, and the host's(Reverse Proxy) hostname is taken from a
> "X-Forwarded-Host" header value. I suggest adding the ability for
> Catalyst to set the host's port from a "X-Forwarded-Host-Port" header
> value.  This way a simple config option such as this 
> 
> HEADER balancer_for_dev2 insert X-Forwarded-Host-Port: 8080
> 
> in a Perlbal config will give a clean solution.
> 
> Extras considerations:  After speaking with Matt(mst) about this, he
> also suggested allowing the "Path" value to be set from a header value
> as well.
> 
> What do you guys think?
> 
> _Marlon Bailey_
> avinash240
> 
> 
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