[stunnel-users] rewrite Destination: when rewriting Host:

Marcio Marchini mqm at sglebs.com
Fri Nov 16 07:37:21 CET 2007


	Can mod_rewrite solve it? I have it installed/enabled, but I am not good at it. Would you happen to know the rules to achieve this? Thanks!!

marcio



Brian Hatch wrote:
> Sometime near 2007-11-11 00:15 -0500, Marcio Marchini shouted:
>
>   
>>   Researching online one can see that WebDAV's spec requires that they
>> check both src and dest URLs for protocol & port. But with some proxies or
>> SSL fronts like stunnel, only one of the URLs is rewritten, so one goes as
>> http and the other as https. Here's one person explaining it, much better
>> than me: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-03/0549.shtml
>>     
>
> Stunnel doesn't currently have the ability to scan and re-write the
> plaintext.  For HTTP redirects it could possibly be implemented
> (re-write only the response before ^$, and redirects aren't chunked
> and don't have content lengths to work with, etc) but you'd still
> need enough HTTP logic to handle keepalives and such.  It's not
> trivial and not likely.
>
> Another option would be to have something already HTTP aware doing
> the rewriting in between stunnel and subversion.  A re-writing
> proxy.
>
> Another option would be to use mod_rewrite in apache to rewrite
> the urls.
>
> But the best way would be to just use SSL inside apache and drop
> stunnel entirely.
>
>
>   




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