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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU> on 2000/02/22 00:20:26 UTC

Re: [Patch] Content-Location headers stripped by reverse proxy

>I think if you want any chance of this kind of thing being accepted
>you're going to have to make a general purpose "strip these headers when
>proxying" thing. I certainly can't see us always stripping
>Content-Location simply because some phone companies can't implement
>their browsers correctly.

The browser is correct.  The problem is that our hack gateway
("reverse proxy") is not correctly translating the response.
Translating the content-location field would be better, but stripping
it is acceptable.

....Roy