HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter::standard - An internal filter to respect RFC2616

NAME

HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter::standard - An internal filter to respect RFC2616

DESCRIPTION

This is an internal filter used by HTTP::Proxy to enforce behaviour compliant with RFC 2616.

METHOD

This filter implements a single method that is called automatically:

filter()
Enforce RFC 2616-compliant behaviour, by adding the Via: and X-Forwarded-For: headers (except when the proxy was instructed not to add them), decrementing the Max-Forwards: header and removing the hop-by-hop and LWP::UserAgent headers.

SEE ALSO

the HTTP::Proxy manpage, the HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter manpage, RFC 2616.

AUTHOR

Philippe ``BooK'' Bruhat, <book@cpan.org>.

Thanks to Gisle Aas, for directions regarding the handling of the hop-by-hop headers.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2003-2005, Philippe Bruhat.

LICENSE

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

 HTTP::Proxy::HeaderFilter::standard - An internal filter to respect RFC2616