[PATCH] httpd: Support reverse proxy

[Alex Landau]

Hi,

The attached patch adds support for reverse proxying (see mod_proxy of Apache).
If compiled in and httpd.conf contains the line
P:/url/:http://somehost:1234/other/path/
then all requests for /url/somefile will be proxied to
http://somehost:1234/other/path/somefile.
This might be useful (and is useful in my case) when there is another HTTP server running
on the local machine, and one does not want to expose two ports - one for that server and
one for busybox's. With this patch, busybox can proxy requests to the other server which
can now listen on 127.0.0.1. The user will not notice that there are 2 servers involved.

bloatcheck:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  93978    4032    1952   99962   1867a busybox_old
  94834    4064    1952  100850   189f2 busybox_unstripped

Regards,
Alex


       
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