From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 22:57:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6124D16A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:57:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from helium.webpack.hosteurope.de (helium.webpack.hosteurope.de [217.115.142.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CB943D45 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:57:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from me@x3k6a2.net) Received: from pd9e46e1a.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.228.110.26] helo=x3k6a2) by helium.webpack.hosteurope.de with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bo8yb-0001Fp-7h for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:57:17 +0200 Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:57:15 +0200 From: Sebastian Steenbuck X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <14844052750.20040724005715@x3k6a2.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <000301c470ed$91015440$5b01a8c0@i8000> References: <000301c470ed$91015440$5b01a8c0@i8000> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HE-MXrcvd: no Subject: Re: Apache - reverse proxy with freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Sebastian Steenbuck List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:57:20 -0000 > What I could not figure out, how the > reverse proxy could distinghish / split up the http 1.1 individual > domains to internal ips. As stated in section 14.23 of RFC 2616 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html >A client MUST include a Host header field in all HTTP/1.1 request > messages e.g. Host: www.w3.org With the host information a reverse proxy can transmit the request to the correct web server. At least this is how I think it is working, I never really touched a thing like this. mfg Sebastian Steenbuck