[lively-kernel] proxy put requests from localhost to webwerkstatt

[Robert Krahn]

I use node.js with socket.io.


On Feb 24, 2012, at 6:23 PM, Lincke, Jens wrote:

> Hi,
> I found my problem, but I don't think there is an solution because digest authentication does not work together with the url rewriting and proxy approach.
> 
> As far as I understood computes the browser an hash from username, password, random number from server and the url.
> 
> Since the browser computes the hash based on the "lcoalhost/proxy/remotehost.com/path" url but not the actual  url the hash and the url are different.... and the server answers with a 400 bad request.
> 
> And I wondered why there was nothing in google on that topic :-( 
> 
> Any Ideas how we ant to let our machines talk to each other? I could always run a node.js server which can do the request for me ;-)
> 
> Best,
> Jens
> 
> Am 24.02.2012 um 16:48 schrieb Krahn, Robert:
> 
>> Just add the digest handler that we use for <Location /repository> already to <Location /proxy> I guess.
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 24, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Lincke, Jens wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi, 
>>> 
>>> Lively makes a lot of use from an apache proxy rule 
>>> 
>>> RewriteRule   ^proxy/(.*)$         http://$1 [P]
>>> 
>>> that rewrites 
>>> 
>>> GET /proxy/lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/hello.txt
>>> 
>>> to http://lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/hello.txt
>>> 
>>> on the server side.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know how to configure apache so that our proxy rules work with digest authentication?
>>> 
>>> so that I can do something like:
>>> 
>>> PUT /proxy/lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/hello.txt 
>>> 
>>> or more precisely a:
>>> 
>>> new URL('http://lively-kernel.org/repository/webwerkstatt/hello.txt').asWebResource().put('localhost was here')
>>> 
>>> from my localhost wiki that uses the same proxy rule.
>>> 
>>> With that I could download and upload parts from other wikis to the webwerkstatt.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Jens
>>> 
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