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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:14:22 +0000
From: "Giovanni Donelli" <giovanni.donelli@gmail.com>
To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org, rm@seid-online.de
Subject: Re: mod_proxy chaining with a .pac file
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On Jan 23, 2008 6:27 PM, Ralf Mattes <rm@seid-online.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 11:12 -0700, Joe Lewis wrote:
> > Giovanni Donelli wrote:
> > > I am trying to make Apache follow the same rules as the browser
> > >
> >
> > Realize that the browser doesn't get the configurations for each website
> > it visits, it only configures, then runs using the same configuration
> > for every website.
>
> Realize that, since a .pac file is a ECMA-Script program, that
> configuration can (and often will) be dynamic. The proxy needs to be
> determined for each request.
>
> > That means it should be easy to create a simple module that has a single
> > configuration directive that points to the next proxy in the chain,
> > something like
> >
> > WPADConfiguration http://secondproxyserver.example.com/my-proxy-file.pac
> >
> > And then just configure mod_proxy, mod_proxy_http, and create a handler
> > that prefaces all URL's with the proxy: string, set the proxyreq setting
> > in the request_rec to an appropriate value, and return 1 to allow
> > mod_proxy to handle the rest of it.
>
> No - that's too simple. The module needs to run the JS function for each
> request and has to be able to dynamically set the proxy.
>
>
>  Cheers, RalfD
>

Thanks RalfD. You got exactly the point.

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