Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Problems with connections

how comes, that your site receives GET requests with the host names included, such as in "GET http://www.yahoo.com/";. It looks to me as if somebody configured your server as Proxy. The requests should look like "GET /" or "GET /dotlrn".

It seems that OpenACS tries to give an error message, but fails, since ad_conn was not yet initialized (in particular "ad_conn -set file" was not yet executed).

Strictly speaking the error does not come from aolserver, but from OpenACS. The OpenACS request processor does not support proxy requests. While there are some solutions for proxying with aolserver, it would require some programming work to integrate these with OpenACS. My recommendation is to use squid/nginx/apache or one of the various other proxy solutions a proxy server.

I realized that it does not happen this error with aolserver 4.5, only with aolserver 4.0.10, I don't know exactly why.

To my installation with aolserver 4.0.10, I made the following patch, inside the proc “rp_handler” in the file “acs-tcl/tcl/request-processor-procs.tcl”.

The patch is:

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< # information twice when for example we get a 404 internal redirect. We should probably
---

# information twice when for example we get a 404 internal
# redirect. We should probably

# Fix to when is trying to use my server like proxy

if {"http://[ns_set iget [ns_conn headers] Host]" ne [ns_conn location]} {
return [ns_conn close]
}

regards,

César Hernández