Set up an HTTP proxy to insert a header

Question

I need to test some HTTP interaction with a client I\'d rather not modify. What I need to test is the behavior of the server when the client\'s requests include a certain, s

Answer 1

I do something like this in my development environment by configuring Apache on port 80 as a proxy for my application server on port 8080, with the following Apache config:

NameVirtualHost *

   
      Allow from all
   
   
      ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8080/myapp
      ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8080/myapp
      Header add myheader "myvalue"
      RequestHeader set myheader "myvalue"   
   

See LocationMatch and RequestHeader documentation.

This adds the header myheader: myvalue to requests going to the application server.