[Jax.PM] perl HTTP header insertion proxy

[WC -Sx- Jones]

On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 02:19  PM, Nate Campi wrote:

> [a jax.PM member posting]
> I have a need for a proxy that sits between a cache acting as a HTTP
> accelerator (apache mod_proxy) and a backend SSI apache site that can
> add the Content-Length header. We already have the Expires header on 
> the
> origin site and will still be lacking Last-Modified but I think we'll 
> be
> ok without it.

On the same server?  Which version of Apache?

Why won't another mod_proxy instance help?


> Does anyone know of such a beast, or something like it? Perhaps there's
> a module that could be easily adapted.
>
> I'd tend to shy away from a full-blown mod_perl instance between the
> other two layers, too big for a small need. It seems that you could 
> bust
> out a simpler standalone perl script that's easier to debug and/or
> extend later.


You can set up a reverse mirroring proxy - which is what I am thinking 
you mean.

See ProxyPassReverse (to stop the client from by-passing the first 
proxy) and ProxyRemote (to identify your new proxy to the caching 
proxy.)

I doubt it is too much different than the caching server configs.  Sort 
of like a double reverse.  Maybe I am confused =)


If you simply want to insert random headers into your HTTP stream, then 
see

http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/talks/WWW6/sniffer/


I have modified this to make up all sort of lies about HTTP data...

-Sx- :)