X-Forwarded-Host support

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:58:25AM +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote:

> Igor Sysoev ha scritto:
> >On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:06:16PM +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote:
> >
> >>Igor, do you plan to add support to the X-Forwarded-Host in nginx?
> >>This can be used in the same way X-Forwarded-For is used in the realip 
> >>module.
> >
> >I do not understand the X-Forwarded-Host use. The realip module is required
> >to change IP part of HTTP request on backend side. The "Host" header line
> >is HTTP part and it can be easy set on nginx side:
> >
> >       proxy_pass        http://backend1;
> >       proxy_set_header  Host   backend2;
> >
> >and you do not need to do anything on backend side.
> >
> 
> You are right, but for unknow (to me) reasons some people do not want to 
> enable the
> ProxyPreserveHost On
> directive in Apache.
> 
> 
> And, quoting from Apache documentation
> (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html):
> 
> This option should normally be turned Off. It is mostly useful in 
> special configurations like proxied mass name-based virtual hosting, 
> where the original Host header needs to be evaluated by the backend server
> 
> 
> Some web applications, as an example, explicitly requires that the user 
> set the base url so they can ignore the Host header.

Do you mean to use X-Forwarded-Host on nginx side as ngx_http_realip_module
does ?

> P.S.: X-Real-IP is a private nginx header, or is it used by some other
>       web servers

X-Real-IP is nginx's and mod_accel's header.


-- 
Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/