From: "Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com>
To: "Eric Wong" <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [cgit PATCH] use Host: header to generate cgit_hosturl
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:36:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c5c35580809011336v58b139acu5078cafd3440c786@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080901063033.GA21848@untitled>
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> I run an instance of lighttpd for cgit behind nginx (nginx
> doesn't execute CGI). So the port (SERVER_PORT=33333) that
> lighttpd runs on sends to cgit is different from the standard
> port 80 that public clients connect to (via nginx).
>
> This was causing the Atom feed URL to show the private port
> number that lighttpd was running on.
>
> Since the HTTP/1.1 "Host" header includes the port number if
> running on a non-standard port, it allows non-client-facing HTTP
> servers to transparently generate public URLs that clients can
> see.
This makes a lot of sense, thanks for the detailed description.
> So use the "Host" header if it is available and fall back to
> SERVER_NAME/SERVER_PORT for some clients that don't set
> HTTP_HOST.
Maybe it would be better to use a new cgitrc parameter as fallback if
the client doesn't provide the "Host" header?
--
larsh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-01 6:30 [cgit PATCH] use Host: header to generate cgit_hosturl Eric Wong
2008-09-01 20:36 ` Lars Hjemli [this message]
2008-09-01 23:07 ` Eric Wong
2008-09-01 23:14 ` Lars Hjemli
2008-09-01 23:30 ` Eric Wong
2008-09-02 7:24 ` Lars Hjemli
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