[Seaside-dev] Seaside 2.8 WAUrl>>takeParametersFromRequest: X-Forwarded-Host

[Michael Lucas-Smith]

Hi All,

One of our testers is trying to deploy an application on a backend 
server with Apache using mod_proxy to communicate and forward through 
requests from the outside world.

It came to our attention that the #takeParametersFromRequest: method, 
which rightly grabs the host, doesn't grab x-forwarded-host when it is 
available. That means that the URLs put out by the anchor tag and other 
such things will point to the internal address of the server instead of 
the external address.

We can set #serverHostname in the properties, but that seems less 
elegant than using the information available. I've patched our 2.8 
version of Seaside for WebVelocity and VisualWorks 7.7. VisualWorks 7.6 
is well past code freeze and is about to be released so it won't include 
this patch.

On a slightly different note - why do all the urls come with a 
hostname/port anyway? .. it's bad form to put out all this repeated 
information for every url.

Cheers,
Michael