Re: hopefully simple project

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 07:01:10PM +0200, Yonah Russ wrote:
> On 12/28/06, Chris Lightfoot <[email protected]> wrote:
    [...]
> >wrapping the script is possible but a little nontrivial
> >(your wrapper script would have to implement the fastcgi
> >IPC protocol and state machine). I would do this by making
> >the `wrapper' actually fetch pages from the original
> >script over HTTP, and return them to the client; then
> >restrict access to the real app so that it will only
> >serve pages to the wrapper, and point external clients at
> >the wrapper script.
> 
> I was afraid of something like that. I'm not sure what you suggest would
> work in this case because the cgi tracks information such as referals,
> source ip,  etc. Proxying the requests would probably block some of the
> information- no?

well... you can reconstruct all of the headers from the
client's request from the HTTP_... variables in the
environment (though if these include Authorization: you
will have to force apache to pass those through). You can
add an X-Forwarded-For: header identifying the originating
IP; there are third-party modules from apache which fix
things up so that this will be represented to scripts as
the real client IP if it was added by a trusted server.
So it should be possible to achieve what you want.

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