Andr�, Torsten

Thank you for your answer (sorry for the delay)

No, Andre, your are not impertinent. I thought I had a problem related to
the request scheme, but in fact, my httpd configuration was wrong !!!

2008/7/1 Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch@[...].net> :

>  On Tue 01 Jul 2008, titetluc titetluc wrote:
>  > I am writing an handler generating sub-requests by using the lookup_uri
>  and
>  > run (Apache2::SubRequest) methods.
>  > My question is : is it technically possible to generate HTTPS sub-request
>  > (I observed that sub-requests were using HTTP)
> 
>  No, none of the protocols is used to make subreqs. HTTP/HTTPS are network
>  protocols. With subreqs there is no network. A subreq is like a recursive
>  call of the same request answering machine. Hence, HTTPS? is irrelevant.
>  Normally the document accessed via a subreq has to be accessible locally.
> 
>  > using the mod_perl API  ?  If
>  > yes, which API do I have to use (I can not find any examples, or I tried
>  > the APR::URI class but unsuccessfully) ?
>  > If not, which solution is possible (using LWP ?)
> 
>  But it can be any kind of document apache can serve. So it can be a regular
>  file, something dynamically created (CGI/PHP/modperl etc) or even a
>  document
>  for which the current server acts as proxy.
> 
>  So in your case I see 2 options:
> 
>  1) implement the included document via a CGI/modperl handler using LWP or
>  similar
> 
>  2) use mod_proxy as reverse proxy
> 
>  In both cases it's not possible to proxy an established SSL identity
>  (client
>  certificate) to the backend server due to the nature of SSL. Nor can your
>  client verify the identity of the backend.
> 
>  If possible I'd go for the mod_proxy version. 1) it doesn't load perl
>  routines
>  in memory. 2) it passes the data an almost as fast as possible whereas
>  homegrown LWP solutions tend to buffer the whole document before sending
>  any
>  output.
> 
>  But mod_proxy has also drawbacks. It is very difficult to make a POST
>  request
>  to the backend this way and feed it some data. I once had a similar problem
>  when I wanted to include a proxied document and pass on the POST input of
>  the
>  original request to the backend. In the end I did it in Perl.
> 
>  Torsten
> 
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