[jira] Work started: (MODPYTHON-141) Allow handlers to trigger proxying of requests.

["Graham Dumpleton (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-141?page=all ]
     
Work on MODPYTHON-141 started by Graham Dumpleton

> Allow handlers to trigger proxying of requests.
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: MODPYTHON-141
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-141
>      Project: mod_python
>         Type: Improvement
>   Components: core
>     Versions: 3.3
>     Reporter: Graham Dumpleton
>     Assignee: Graham Dumpleton
>      Fix For: 3.3

>
> The req.proxyreq and req.uri attributes are not currently modifiable. If they were modifable, it would be possible for a mod_python handler to trigger proxying of a request to some remote site. For example:
> import posixpath
> from mod_python import apache
> def fixuphandler(req):
>   if req.proxyreq:
>     return apache.DECLINED
>   normalised_uri = posixpath.normpath(req.uri)
>   if normalised_uri:
>     if normalised_uri != '/' and req.uri[-1] == '/':
>       normalised_uri += '/'
>   length = len(req.filename)
>   length -= len(req.hlist.directory) - 1
>   length += len(req.path_info or '')
>   baseurl = normalised_uri[:-length]
>   path = normalised_uri[len(baseurl):]
>   req.proxyreq = apache.PROXYREQ_REVERSE
>   req.uri = 'http://www.dscpl.com.au' + path
>   req.filename = 'proxy:%s' % req.uri
>   req.handler = 'proxy-server'
>   return apache.OK
> See further discussion on mailing list:
>   http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2006-March/020500.html
>   http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2006-March/020502.html
>   http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2006-March/020503.html
>   http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2006-March/020507.html
> Patches are include in the last of these emails rather than being attached here.

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