[Catalyst] Apache mod_proxy, SSL and uri_for

[Dylan Vanderhoof]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Grundman [mailto:andy at hybridized.org] 
> 
> 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.
> 

Works perfectly.  Thanks.

-Dylan