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Can I persude Apache to accept absolute URI?

I'm not talking about proxying here - but requesting a document from
the origin server using the full URI.

The reason for this is that I want to have a single instance of Apache
acting as a Proxy and as an origin server without having to make sure
that all my local browsers know not to use the proxy for local
documents.

Without the proxy module loaded I see:

| GET http://www.wcl.bham.ac.uk/ HTTP/1.1
| Host: www.wcl.bham.ac.uk
|
| HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
| Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:56:02 GMT
| Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)  (SuSE/Linux) mod_perl/1.19 mod_ssl/2.3.5 OpenSSL/0.9.3
| Connection: close
| Content-Type: text/html

With the proxy module loaded I see:

| GET http://www.wcl.bham.ac.uk/ HTTP/1.1
| Host: www.wcl.bham.ac.uk
|
| HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
| Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:00:54 GMT
| Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)  (SuSE/Linux) mod_perl/1.19 PHP/3.0.11 mod_ssl/2.3.5 OpenSSL/0.9.3
| Connection: close
| Content-Type: text/html

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Apparenly that's not actually allowed.  It just sounds from the HTTP
standard as if it is.  Hoever if the origin server is configured as a
proxy it should still work as the proxy should, in effect, forward the
request to itself.

Quote:> The reason for this is that I want to have a single instance of Apache
> acting as a Proxy and as an origin server without having to make sure
> that all my local browsers know not to use the proxy for local
> documents.

I've now found Apache problem reports 4488, 5290 decribe this same
bug.  Apparently it is an interaction with mod_perl.  This is however
not listed in the "known bugs" page.

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