Re: reverse proxy: how to make it to pass headers to backend server?

Gael Marziou writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I have an Apache 1.3.19 server configured in reverse proxy, I would
 > like it to pass some additional HTTP headers to the backend server.
 > 
 > I tried the 'Header' directive but it seems it will add only to HTTP
 > responses back to the browser and not to HTTP requests forwarded to
 > the backend server.
 > 
 > Any suggestion?
 > 

I maintain a patch for the 1.3-series Apache releases that allows you
to do this (and a few other things). 

  http://allafrica.com/tools/apache/mod_proxy/

Kwin