request_uri() hack for tunelled connections
anisotropic - April 2, 2005 - 00:25
| Project: | Drupal |
| Version: | 5.1 |
| Component: | base system |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
I run a drupal instance at work on our internal network as a FAQ tool, and had problems using the site while using ssh tunnels from the outside. I tracked this down to a problem with request_uri() where the following case was not accounted for:
in $_SERVER
HTTP_HOST is something like this:
hostname:8080
because this is the port the client is using and passing along,
but SERVER_PORT is '80' and REQUEST_URI is just something like /drupal/?q=support
the following is a quick hack to fix this, intended not as a patch, but just to illutstrate an edge-case and a way to work around it. There are no doubt better ways to do this. =)
the quick hack:
<?php
function request_uri() {
// echo "<code>".print_r($_SERVER, 1)."</code>\n"; debugging? bah!
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
$host = explode(':', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
}
if($host[1] != $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT']) {
// boom, we're tunnelled, better supply an entire url
$uri = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
} else {
if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}
else {
if (isset($_SERVER['argv'])) {
$uri = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] .'?'. $_SERVER['argv'][0];
}
else {
$uri = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] .'?'. $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
}
}
}
return check_url($uri);
}
?>
#1
I forgot to mention this will only work if you also hack conf.php / settings.php:
// hack for tunneling
$arr = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$arr = array_slice($arr, 0, -1);
$app_base = implode("/", $arr);
$base_url = "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $app_base;
#2
not a bug.
#3
#4
Could someone please post how to get this to work for 5.1? I really need to get this working from inside an SSH tunnel. With this hack, does it matter what port you use as your local port for the tunnel?