Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "M. Strobel" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Apache and php to show http request headers. Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:32:44 +0200 Lines: 102 Message-ID: References: <041d6312-2dee-4535-8215-6e9dbcb1e274@z19g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>

<%t1Gr.28393$Bp1.24038@newsfe10.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 5ymPF57iHFrrCOc5KFl8Ogu1Ew7vFhhXXzuNZu5XePrjQam1XQwC33aaNItVZ3Dbc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120601 Thunderbird/13.0 In-Reply-To: <%t1Gr.28393$Bp1.24038@newsfe10.iad> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:6436 Am 25.06.2012 19:46, schrieb Daniel Pitts: > On 6/25/12 10:17 AM, M. Strobel wrote: >> Am 25.06.2012 18:48, schrieb Jerry Stuckle: >>> On 6/25/2012 12:10 PM, M. Strobel wrote: >>>> Am 25.06.2012 16:44, schrieb Jerry Stuckle: >>>>> On 6/25/2012 10:42 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: >>>>>> In article , >>>>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>>>>>> On 6/25/2012 9:36 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote: >>>>>>>> In article , Luuk wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 25-06-2012 12:15, brumik wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I need to test various http requests from an application and am using >>>>>>>>>> Apache/PHP on ubuntu to display the http request headers. The >>>>>>>>>> application proxy forwards http requests to the apache server's IP >>>>>>>>>> address like as follows: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 192.168.40.1/test/test.html >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> where 192.168.40.1 is the apache server. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I have a php script to dump the headers as follows: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> foreach($_SERVER as $h=>$v) >>>>>>>>>> #if(ereg('HTTP_(.+)',$h,$hp)) >>>>>>>>>> echo "

$h = $v

\n"; >>>>>>>>>> header('Content-type: text/html'); >>>>>>>>>> ?> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> The problem is that to show the headers, I redirect 192.168.40.1/* to >>>>>>>>>> the above index.php page using the following redirect: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Options +FollowSymlinks >>>>>>>>>> RewriteEngine on >>>>>>>>>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/index.php$ >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> RewriteRule $ /index.php [R=302,L] >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> However the php request headers page always shows the URI as / >>>>>>>>>> index.php as opposed to the 'original' URI requested (/test/ >>>>>>>>>> test.html). >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> How can I get it to show the 'original' URI requested? is this >>>>>>>>>> something that can be done in PHP or is it apache specific? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Its apache, because it is redirecting, so PHP does only know about the >>>>>>>>> redirected request, and does have no knowledge of how this request >>>>>>>>> reached PHP. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You could try the Proxy flag in the RewriteRule: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> RewriteRule $ http://localhost/index.php [P,L] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> He can try a lot of things which won't work. >>>>>> >>>>>> Well, yes, but I didn't think my suggestion was one of them. If you >>>>>> think it is, I would like to know why, so that I would know for the >>>>>> future, rather than just be the target of a bit of sarcasm. You could >>>>>> try something like "That won't work because...." (if applicable). >>>>>> >>>>>> The OP's original rule obviously wouldn't work, because it tells the >>>>>> client browser to generate a completely fresh request with the new >>>>>> location. In contrast, the Proxy flag in RewriteRule is supposed to >>>>>> make Apache proxy the original request to the new location (even to >>>>>> itself if necessary). So the request's original headers should still >>>>>> be present, with perhaps one or more proxy headers. >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> Tony >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It's off topic in this newsgroup. If you want to know why, try an appropriate >>>>> newsgroup. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Truth is never off topic. >>>> >>>> /Str. >>>> >>> >>> Only in your small mind. This is a PHP group - hence the "PHP" in its name. There >>> are other groups where experts in that area hang out. >>> >>> And your comment shows why there are so many crappy answers to off-topic questions in >>> this newsgroup. >>> >> Ah, small mind. What could PHP do without Apache servers? > Quite a bit. Apache isn't a requirement for PHP by any means. Who is talking about requirement? The point was JS saying Apache is off topic for PHP, and I tried to hint to the importance of Apache for PHP web programming. see http://phpadvent.org/2010/usage-statistics-by-ilia-alshanetsky /Str.