Thanks a lot Yann for writing back so quickly. Yes to the first question, no to the second.
How does the test patch approach work? Dana On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Yann Ylavic <ylavic....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Dana Wang <danajoyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The challenge I'm facing is that the remote forward proxy no longer > forwards > > requests due to relative URL. > > You want your proxy to talk https with a forward proxy via a remote > CONNECT proxy, right? > Not so common, is your proxy itself a forward proxy which can't > CONNECT backends directly? > > If your proxy is a reverse, I don't see why the backend would need an > absolute URL. > > Otherwise (hence a real forward proxy use case :), maybe the "type" of > URL could depend on ProxyRequests on/off, since partial URL (off) is > what a backends expect (though they should also handle absolute > URLs..) while interoperability issues (PR 55892) have made httpd now > assume that the origin is a backend (more common) rather than a > forward proxy (on) like previous behaviour (which used to work with > most backends handling full URLs..). > > Make it depend on current proxy's ProxyRequests on/off looks sensible. > > > I have been trying different configurations in > > the virtual host to make the URL back to the absolute form, but have not > had > > any success. > > > > Any recommendation is highly appreciated. > > I don't think it can be achieved with the current mod_proxy > implementation, could you apply/test patch(es) possibly? > > Regards, > Yann. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
