[Zope] apache + vhm & http-rfc compliance

[Gary Poster]

Thanks for the info and clarification.  I'm exploring a bit on this myself,
now.  I want to look at rule construction some more though, even though I
now understand why what I listed was a bad choice.

It's getting kind of hacked up with all of the replies, so here's your
original, as copied from
http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2002-January/107176.html :

> I use an extra condition to avoid that problem and do another rewrite
> if hostname has the port appended:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*:80$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)
http://localhost:25080/zopefolder/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}/VirtualH
ostRoot/$1 [P]
http://localhost:25080/zopefolder/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}/VirtualH
ostRoot/$1 [P]

Is that last line doubled by accident?  Or is it supposed to look a little
different?  Assuming that the last line should be deleted or changed, then
that makes sense.  I've been experimenting today with the following slight
modification, with some success, though, and it seems like a more generic
solution to me.  Here it is based on what you were using (mine actually
looks different, because I am using my own product, but here it is with you
code):

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*:\d*$
RewriteRule ^/(.*)
http://localhost:25080/zopefolder/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}/VirtualH
ostRoot/$1 [P]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)
http://localhost:25080/zopefolder/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}:%{SERVER
_PORT}/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [P]

That's assuming SERVER_PORT is reliable, which it has been in my tests
today.  This performed satisfactorily today for me with IE, Moz, and WebDAV,
using multiple http ports (ok, well, two, one normal and one webdav source).

BTW, of my initial attempt, you end with this:
> This might be desired in some cases (locking out wget&friends)
> , but will end in a disaster if a popular browser begins to send the
"Host:"
> header this way.

I'm not sure, but the latest nightly Mozilla build may be doing this exact
thing.  I got some results that seemed to suggest that.  Interesting.

Thanks for bringing this up.

Gary