[Catalyst] Apache mod_proxy, SSL and uri_for

[Andy Grundman]

On May 17, 2007, at 6:56 PM, Dylan Vanderhoof wrote:

> I'm having a little issue with SSL and uri_for.
>
> mox_proxy is sending the X-Forwarded-For: headers correctly, but they
> don't appear to have any information as to whether or not the request
> was http or https.  From what I can tell, this is normal behavior.
> However, that means that if I'm just using http on the connection from
> the proxy to the backend server, uri_for is incorrect, which causes  
> all
> sorts of mixed-mode warnings to pop up on any subsequent requests.
>
> using_frontend_proxy is set to 1 in my config, but it doesn't  
> appear to
> address this particular issue.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions for how I might fix this?  For now, I'm
> just running SSL to the backend server, but I'd really rather not  
> waste
> the resources.

One way to solve this is to proxy SSL requests to a different port on  
the backend, and set the environment variable HTTPS to 'ON' for that  
port's virtualhost on the backend.  Then Catalyst will know it's in  
SSL mode and generate the right links.