[Zope] VirtualHostMonster and "unpack list of wrong size"

[Dieter Maurer]

Jo Meder writes:
 > ...
 > Apache is intrumented with the usual Rewrite-Rule a la 
 > 
 > RewriteRule /(.*) http://localhost:1234/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}:80/cms_root/some_name/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P]
 > 
 > Now there seem to be cases (we tracked most of them to usage of wget as
 > a user agent) where VirtualHostMonster tries to decode
 > "www.hostname.tld:80:80". The error occurs when VHM tries to execute
A well known problem:

  Some HTTP clients include the port in the "HOST" HTTP header.

Use an Apache "RewriteCond" to strip away the port if it is present:

    RewriteCond  %{HTTP_HOST}  ([^:]*)(:.*)?
    RewriteRule ..../http/%1:80/...


Dieter