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by **Schuyler Bish** » Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:00:00

I've been told that Apache 1.3.11's ProxyPass directive does not
handle relative links properly (or at all). Can anyone validate that
for me? It's from a trusted source, but I just wanted to make sure..

thanks.

Schuyler

by **Joshua Sliv** » Wed, 01 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> I've been told that Apache 1.3.11's ProxyPass directive does not
> handle relative links properly (or at all). Can anyone validate that
> for me? It's from a trusted source, but I just wanted to make sure..

I'm not sure what that means. It doesn't handle ABSOLUTE links,
in the sense that they will cause the browser to request documents
directly from the back-end server in a Reverse Proxy situation.

--
Joshua Slive

http://finance.commerce.ubc.ca/~slive/

by **Schuyler Bish** » Thu, 02 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Sorry... what I meant was if a site's html refernces links relatively,
i.e. <a href=/documents> instead of <a
href=http://www.foo.com/documents>

Schuyler

On 29 Feb 2000 21:50:09 GMT, "Joshua Slive"

>> I've been told that Apache 1.3.11's ProxyPass directive does not
>> handle relative links properly (or at all). Can anyone validate that
>> for me? It's from a trusted source, but I just wanted to make sure..

>I'm not sure what that means. It doesn't handle ABSOLUTE links,
>in the sense that they will cause the browser to request documents
>directly from the back-end server in a Reverse Proxy situation.

>--
>Joshua Slive

>http://finance.commerce.ubc.ca/~slive/

by **Joshua Sliv** » Thu, 02 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> Sorry... what I meant was if a site's html refernces links relatively,
> i.e. <a href=/documents> instead of <a
> href=http://www.foo.com/documents>

I haven't used this extensively myself, but from everything I know
this should work fine. Of course, you haven't given very many details
about the setup you are talking about and what you expect to happen.
In any case, it isn't difficult to setup, so why not just try it?

--
Joshua Slive

http://finance.commerce.ubc.ca/~slive/

by **Leslie Mikese** » Thu, 02 Mar 2000 04:00:00

>> Sorry... what I meant was if a site's html refernces links relatively,
>> i.e. <a href=/documents> instead of <a
>> href=http://www.foo.com/documents>

>I haven't used this extensively myself, but from everything I know
>this should work fine. Of course, you haven't given very many details
>about the setup you are talking about and what you expect to happen.
>In any case, it isn't difficult to setup, so why not just try it?

The browser reconstructs the missing parts of a relative reference
according to where it thinks you are currently, and it doesn't
know anything about your proxypass directive. If the relative
reference does not include the leading / it will always work
since it will always appear under the proxypassed directory.
If it does have the leading / it will only work if the reference
still maps under the proxypass directory. That is, given
ProxyPass /p_dir http://p_host.com/p_dir
a reference to sub_dir would work, /p_dir/subdir would work, but
/other_dir would not.

Les Mikesell

Very Computer

Apache 1.3.11, ProxyPass and relative links

Apache 1.3.11, ProxyPass and relative links

Apache 1.3.11, ProxyPass and relative links

Apache 1.3.11, ProxyPass and relative links

Apache 1.3.11, ProxyPass and relative links

Apache 1.3.11, ProxyPass and relative links