[plt-scheme] Proxying the PLT web server?

hi!

i don't have much experience but for what i know after reading the docs is that PLT web server can
does HTTPS (this is SSL with certs, no?) and also authentication, so you can possibly do it more
simply and more in native scheme:

http://docs.plt-scheme.org/web-server/Troubleshooting.html

Here, see the sections on:

11.2 How do I use Apache with the PLT Web Server?

11.5 How do I set up the server to use HTTPS?

ps: if there is some problem with this solution, i'd like to know briefly and learn from it. :)

maxigas

From: YC <yinso.chen at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Proxying the PLT web server?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:18:59 -0700

> I have done such a setup.  The effort isn't in getting PLT to work, rather it's in getting mod_proxy to work correctly.
> 
> You likely need to do some URL munging, and for that you'll also need mod_proxy_html.
> 
>   • A tutorial on using Apache+SSL as PLT Frontend
>    
>   • mod_proxy_html - Home to mod_proxy_html that can be used for in page link translation
>    
>   • Reverse Proxy Tutorial - An older tutorial on how to setup mod_proxy as a reverse proxy
>    
>   • ProxyPassReverseCookieDomain - The directive to ensure cookie also works across proxy calls
>    
>   • Installing mod_proxy_html
>    
> Also read up about selinux to ensure that your apache server can access network...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Marek Kubica <marek at xivilization.net> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:56:07 +0200
>     Marek Kubica <marek at xivilization.net> wrote:
>    
>     > I'm planning to write an application using the PLT web server, that
>     > will be run behind an Apache server which takes care about SSL client
>     > certificate authentifaction and puts the user name into the
>     > REMOTE_USER variable.
>    
>     I picture says more then a hundred words. Even if it's ASCII.
>    
>     User's browser (with a client certificate and uername bob)
>     |
>     |
>     v
>     Apache (gets the HTTPS request)
>     |
>     |
>     v
>     mod_ssl (verifies the certificate against the CA, sets REMOTE_USER to
>     bob)
>     |
>     |
>     v
>     mod_headers (sets some HTTP request header to the value of REMOTE_USER)
>     |
>     |
>     v
>     mod_proxy (forwards the modified request via HTTP internally)
>     |
>     |
>     v
>     PLT web server (accesses the user name from the header and runs app)
>    
>     My question is whether the PLT web server can handle something like
>     this.
>    
>     regards,
>     Marek
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