Howto proxy a fully qualified url to another proxy?

[prateep]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is possible, but I would like to rewrite a url and then proxy it through another proxy (squid).

For example, let's say I have a local url...

/about

and I want to rewrite that to a fully qualified url...

RewriteRule ^/about http://www.google.com/intl/en/about.html

and then proxy that through another squid proxy...

RewriteRule .* http://localhost:3128/ [P]

In this case, the URL is rewritten to / and then proxied through to localhost:3128. I want to preserve the full rewritten URL and then proxy that.

Any ideas?

thanks,

Prateep

[lammert]

Hi prateep, first of all Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Have you considered using the Apache 2.x proxy module as an alternative for Squid? In that case rewriting and proxying the URL is done within the same application which creates a cleaner setup.

[prateep]

Hi,

I think I found what I needed...

The ProxyRemote and ProxyRemoteMatch directives do what I want.

thanks,

Prateep