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Date:      Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:57:15 +0200
From:      Sebastian Steenbuck <me@x3k6a2.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Apache - reverse proxy with freebsd
Message-ID:  <14844052750.20040724005715@x3k6a2.net>
In-Reply-To: <000301c470ed$91015440$5b01a8c0@i8000>
References:  <000301c470ed$91015440$5b01a8c0@i8000>

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> 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



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