Spec Name or Url: http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/specs/mod_extract_forwarded.spec SRPM Name or Url: http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/srpms/mod_extract_forwarded-2.0.2-1.src.rpm Description: mod_extract_forwarded is a module for Apache 2 which hooks itself into Apache's header parsing phase and looks for the X-Forwarded-For header which some (most?) proxies add to the proxied HTTP requests. It extracts the IP from the X-Forwarded-For and modifies the connection data so to the rest of Apache the request looks like it came from that IP rather than the proxy IP.
No objections nor a review, but I've used mod_rpaf from http://stderr.net/apache/rpaf/ in the past for similar purposes. Do you happen to be familiar with it? Based on quickly skimming the descriptions, mod_rpaf appears to deal with virtual hosts (X-Host/X-Forwarded-Host) in addition to X-Forwarded-For; mod_extract_forwarded's docs don't mention that.
No, I've not come across mod_rpaf. They appear to do substantially the same thing. X-Host/X-Forwarded-Host isn't something I've come across, since I've only used Squid (which can be configured to pass on the "real" hostname to the backend server), so I can't comment on the support of either module for it.
Well, heck, I worked up this review and then I noticed the NEEDSPONSOR blocker. But I looked through owners.list and I see that rpm.uk already owns three packages, so perhaps that tag is out of date. I'll go ahead and include the review and just leave this as FE-NEW until things are cleared up. * package meets naming and packaging guidelines. * specfile is properly named, is cleanly written and uses macros consistently. * license field matches the actual license. * license is open source-compatible. It's not included separately in the package, but this is not necessary as the upstream tarball does not include it. * source files match upstream: d7aeb59fa81cbe74c485c33873ea1c65 extract_forwarded-2.0.2.tar.gz d7aeb59fa81cbe74c485c33873ea1c65 extract_forwarded-2.0.2.tar.gz-srpm * latest version is being packaged. * BuildRequires are proper. * package builds in mock (development, x86_64). * rpmlint is silent. * final provides and requires are sane. * no shared libraries are present, but they're not in the default locations so there's no need to call ldconfig. * package is not relocatable. * creates no directories. * doesn't own any directories it shouldn't. * no duplicates in %files. * file permissions are appropriate. * %clean is present. * %check is not present; no upstream test suite. * code, not content. * documentation is small, so no -docs subpackage is necessary. * %docs are not necessary for the proper functioning of the package. * no headers. * no pkgconfig files. * no libtool .la droppings. * not a GUI app. APPROVED, assuming the NEEDSPONSOR blocker is incorrect.
Thanks very much for the review Jason. The NEEDSPONSOR blocker is indeed incorrect ; I'll remove it and import.
Built OK in devel - job #8524
Package Change Request ====================== Package Name: mod_extract_forwarded New Branches: EL-4 EL-5
cvs done.