Re: Host headers for accelerator origins

On fre, 2008-07-18 at 12:21 +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > On tor, 2008-07-17 at 09:09 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >> Well, what we should really do is document exactly whats going on, so
> >> we can then write tests to ensure the code matches the intent.
> >
> > The intent is that nothing goes on unless one explicitly asks for it.
>
> As he did in this case with 'vhost' option.

that tells Squid to use the Host header, which is the effect he saw.

or did I misunderstand Mark completely?

> My understanding was that the correct behavior is:
>
> - default or 'accel': no re-writing done. Assume the client did it
> properly, too bad if not.

accel alone is a no-go. Needs at least one of vhost or defaultsite
telling squid how to pick up the requested hostname.

> - never re-write to the cache_peer 'name' or label EVER.

correct.

> - with 'vhost' configure on the http_port should re-write URL domain
> to the Host: FQDN.

correct.

> - with no Host: but defaultsite, should re-write as above to fixed
> defaultsite value.

correct.

> - same for vport

vport is a bit of an odd beast, but yes.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Jul 18 2008 - 00:59:04 MDT