Re: problem with cookie domains and mod_proxy, Apache 1.3.27

I don't think 2.0 has any specific options for not passing specific cookies through.
I'm not sure how easy it would be. Looking at a tcpdump of port80 traffic, it doesn't
look like the request passes the domain back.

I guess the only way would be for the site admin to explitly block a cookie,  but I don't belive 
that option exists at the moment, and I can't think of a workaround via rewrite.

Sorry Ken.

ps.. if this is really really big pain for you, we could add a directive to mask cookies
but It would probably end up in the standard 2.0 distribution, not 1.3

--ian


Mathias Herberts wrote:
> Humm second thought, we are not running the same config, no auth is done
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> on our reverse proxies, and I personnaly think this is not the place for
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>   auth as reverse proxies should really be transparent.
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> I guess the actual mod_proxy code will not enable you to fix your 
> problem. Maybe Apache 2.0 has more features for tweaking headers.
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> Regards,
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> Mathias.
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> Weiss, Ken wrote:
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>>I have configured Apache 1.3.27 to operate as a reverse proxy. My
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> proxy runs
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>>on proxybox.schwab.com. I have a content server sitting behind it,
>>content.schwab.com. I can access the following URL, and it works
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> perfectly:
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>>http://proxybox.schwab.com/content
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> <http://proxybox.schwab.com/content> 
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>>I get the content that is sitting on content.schwab.com. So all the
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> reverse
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>>proxy stuff is working fine.
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>>Here's my problem. I use a cookie to authenticate people to
>>proxybox.schwab.com. This cookie has a domain of .proxybox.schwab.com,
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> so it
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>>should only be presented to that specific host. Web servers running on
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> any
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>>other host should not be able to see this cookie. But, I can see the
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> cookie
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>>on content.schwab.com.
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>>It appears that mod_proxy passes all headers, including cookies with
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> very
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>>restrictive domains, to the content servers. Even though the cookie
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> has a
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>>domain set that should prevent it from going to any other servers, it
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> still
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>>gets passed along.
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>>Is there any way to configure mod_proxy so it will stop doing this? Is
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> there
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>>any way to modify mod_proxy to filter a specific cookie from the
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> header
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>>before passing the request to the content server?
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>>--Ken
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