On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 06:38 +0200, Eric Lemoine wrote: > >> Right. I'd rather apply this: "don't generate fully-qualified URLs in > >> your web apps, or you may have trouble running them behind proxies". > > > > You're eventually going to run into situations with middleware that > > unconditionally generates fully qualified URLs where I believe you're > > going to need to modify that to "always set ProxyPreserveHost On". But > > until then, you can try to ignore it by generating only paths, although > > I don't think that makes much sense given that it's so easy to turn on. > > Got you. > > Also, FWIW, when relying on ProxyPreserveHost the backend must be > aware of the proxy, as it needs a ServerName or ServerAlias > referencing the proxy. This might be a management hassle in some > situations.
I don't think so, unless you're defining "backend" differently than I am. The point of passing along the Host header is so that things behind the proxy don't need to know or care about the proxy. Assuming every hostname resolves to the IP address of the proxy: the application generates a sensible URL, the user clicks on it, the proxy answers, sends it along to the backend, and passes along the Host header; lather rinse repeat. > > Sure, apologies if I sound dismissive, I just hate having long > > discussions about defaults. > > I understand. Sensible defaults are key. > > -- > Eric Lemoine > > Camptocamp France SAS > Savoie Technolac, BP 352 > 73377 Le Bourget du Lac, Cedex > > Tel : 00 33 4 79 44 44 96 > Mail : eric.lemo...@camptocamp.com > http://www.camptocamp.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel?hl=en.
