Manage HTTP redirects from the proxied server

[giovannipizzi]

Currently, if a HTTP redirect is given by the proxied server, this is proxied as well.
This means that the browser will be redirected to things like http://localhost:some_port/xxx instead of just redirecting to xxx under the correct proxied path.

I think this just involves using some regex substitution as I think also e.g. apache reverse_proxy does.

[ltalirz]

This problem exists also in nbserverproxy?

[giovannipizzi]

no, I think the same problem occurs there, as the code is basically the same.

I don't think setting "allow_redirects" in the internal coroutine that does the request is the right solution either, because often redirects are meant to change the URL of the user, while that setting would hide the redirect.

a link, maybe useful:

https://docs.trafficserver.apache.org/en/4.2.x/admin/reverse-proxy-http-redirects.en.html