[Zope] remote address

[Bill Anderson]

On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 09:57, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Mike Renfro wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:35:24AM +0800, Fritz Mesedilla wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it possible to use ProxyVia with mod_rewrite since we use rewrite
> > > to hide the port number and folder of the zope websites?
> > 
> > I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like if you use the [P] directive
> > in your RewriteRules, it'll hand it off to mod_proxy, and in that case
> > you'd get access to the ProxyVia stuff.
> 
> Won't you still have the problem that your REQUEST will still contain the
> proxy itself, not the actual machine requesting the Web page? That's what I
> get anyway. Last I heard, you need to patch Apache to get it to send another
> HTTP header with the "real" requester information.
> 
> Is this still true? (I'm using Apache 1.3.9, BTW)

You missed a post or two. :)

I have mod_proxy and use the ProxyVia Full directive, and the
REMOTE_ADDR is the one of the browser (or their proxy if extant), not my
proxy. I did not need to patch Apache, using Apache v. apache-1.3.19-5.
I cannot say if 1.3.9 needs the patch or not.

Bill