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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Graham Leggett <mi...@sharp.fm> on 2003/08/07 22:27:03 UTC
Re: anybody ever heard of a ProxyPassCookie patch
Jeff Trawick wrote:
> and why it was never integrated into Apache 1.3?
>
> It is described here:
>
> http://www.wede.de/sw/mod_proxy/
>
> There is also such a patch in the old bug db and at least one other open
> PR about the need for such a feature (updating domains in cookies during
> reverse proxy operations).
>
> I didn't see any comments in the PRs about technical problems with such
> a feature, but I'm curious if anybody knows of some.
Such a feature would need to be configurable, as the change to the path
in the cookie might not necessarily be what the person intended.
For example:
ProxyPass /foo http://backend/
would cause the cookie backend path "/" to be changed to "/foo". The
user may want the cookie path to stay "/".
Regards,
Graham
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