base url and tools.proxy?

[Shawn]

I have cherrypy setup behind an Apache reverse proxy.

When my application generates links using cherrypy.url() I need them
to reflect the proxy's path information, etc.

When reading this page:

http://cherrypy.org/wiki/BuiltinTools#tools.proxy

It seems to indicate that I would have to hard-code the path
information in the configuration for my cherrypy application.

Is there no dynamic way to do this given that it can already handle
scheme://host[:port] ?

Thanks,
-Shawn

[Robert Brewer]

If you can find a way for Apache to send the path info (say, in an
X-header) to CP, then it should be a snap to write a clone of
tools.proxy that looks for that and sets request.base correctly. But as
far as I know, that magical X-header doesn't exist. If you find it does
and is common, we'd be happy to incorporate it into tools.proxy.

Robert Brewer
fuma...@aminus.org

[Eric Larson]

Ian Bicking found the same lack of a path header when I discussed a
similar issue with some paste middleware. I mention it because if
there is a way to get that path info, it would be really helpful for
any WSGI based application. I personally never found a good way to do
it other than explicitly specifying the base URL.

Good luck!

Eric Larson

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