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Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 09:10:34 +0100
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Subject: Re: mod_proxy retry
From: Sorin Manolache <sorinm@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 01:18, Jodi Bosa <jodibosa@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks but unfortunately it seems mod_include #include virtual does not
> appear to support requests to external servers (must not contain a scheme
> or hostname - only path and query string).
>
>
> Regardless, I also tried ap_sub_req_lookup_uri():
>
>
> =A0 static apr_status_t x_response_filter(ap_filter_t *f, apr_bucket_brig=
ade
> *bb)
> =A0 {
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0request_rec =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 *r, *subr;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0int
> status;
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0request_rec *subr =3D ap_sub_req_lookup_uri("http://www.ap=
ache.org",
> r, f->next);
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0status =3D ap_run_sub_req(subr);
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0ap_destroy_sub_req(subr);
> =A0 }
>
>
> which seemed to succeed to make_sub_request() but later on mod_proxy's
> proxy_handler() failed because of r->proxyreq was NULL.
>

You can still do it with ap_sub_req_lookup_uri. Just use something like

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /dummy/path http://external.proxy/path2 [P]

and then ap_sub_req_method_uri("GET", "/dummy/path", r, f->next);

The [P] in the rewriterule makes sure you have r->proxyreq not null.

S