[users@httpd] Proxy Filter

["Abhinav (Cognizant)" <Ab...@cal.cognizant.com>]

We can use ProxyPass to filter and froward requests to another server
based on the URL. Can we do a similar thing on the basis of MIME-TYPE
e.g if the request is for a gif file, the webserver serves it and if its for 
any other type forwards it to the other server.

Re: [users@httpd] Proxy Filter

[Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Abhinav (Cognizant) wrote:

> We can use ProxyPass to filter and froward requests to another server
> based on the URL. Can we do a similar thing on the basis of MIME-TYPE
> e.g if the request is for a gif file, the webserver serves it and if its for
> any other type forwards it to the other server.

I don't believe this is theoretically possible, since the mime-type can't
be known until you have the document.

But what you probably want is to proxy requests with certain file
extensions.  This can certainly be done with mod_rewrite.  For example:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*)\.gif$ http://internal.example.com/$1\.gif [P]

Joshua.

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