Re: mod_proxy and HTTP 302 response

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Brett Hutley wrote:

> What you need to do is have a look at the HTTP headers that the server 
> that is doing the redirect sends BEFORE they hit your proxy server. An 
> easy way to do this is to use 'wget -S' (I wish I'd known this the other 
> day - I was using tcpdump to sniff the packets...). For example, when I 
> fire it at my host:
> 
> wget -S host.example.com
> 
> I get back:
> 
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
>  1 HTTP/1.0 200 OK
>  2 Server: Zope/(Zope 2.5.1b1 (OpenBSD package zope-2.5.1b1)
>  3 , python 2.1.2, openbsd3) ZServer/1.1b1
>  4 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 22:52:44 GMT
>  5 Connection: Keep-Alive
>  6 Content-Type: text/html
>  7 Etag:
>  8 Content-Length: 289
> 
> ... and you can immediately see the bad line number 3, without the 
> all-important colon.
> 
> Cheers, Brett
> 

Brett when I use wget (by the way thanks for pointing out that tool), this
is what I get.

First without the proxy server:

% /usr/local/wget/bin/wget -S --proxy=off http://www.someserver.com/webpage.html
--10:08:01--  http://www.someserver.com/webpage.html
           => `webpage.html'
Resolving www.someserver.com... done.
Connecting to www.someserver.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
 1 HTTP/1.0 302
 2 Server: RealPage 2700
 3 Set-Cookie: RealPageID=123456789; expires=Tue, 31-Dec-2002 00:00:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.someserver.com
 4 Location: http://server1.someserver.com/webpage.html
 5 Content-Type: text/html
Location: http://server1.someserver.com/webpage.html
[following]
--10:08:05--
http://server1.someserver.com/webpage.html
           => `webpage.html'
Resolving server1.someserver.com... done.
Connecting to server1.someserver.com[yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 
 1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 2 Connection: Keep-Alive
 3 Server: RealPage 2700
 4 Content-Type: text/html
 5 Content-length: 1592

100%[====================================>] 1,592          1.52M/s    ETA
00:00

10:08:06 (1.52 MB/s) - `webpage.html' saved [1592/1592]


Now with the proxy server

% /usr/local/wget/bin/wget -S http://www.someserver.com/webpage.html
--10:09:27--  http://www.someserver.com/webpage.html
           => `webpage.html'
Resolving proxy.server.com... done.
Connecting to proxy.server.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:80... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 
 1 HTTP/1.1 302
Location: unspecified
ERROR: Redirection (302) without location.


Other than the first line, all the lines have a colon.  So I am not sure
what is going wrong here.  Any ideas?


John