Author: rjung
Date: Sat Mar 21 14:03:20 2009
New Revision: 756940
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=756940&view=rev
Log:
Improve english grammar.
Thanks to Andre.
Modified:
tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/generic_howto/proxy.xml
Modified: tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/generic_howto/proxy.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/generic_howto/proxy.xml?rev=756940&r1=756939&r2=756940&view=diff
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--- tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/generic_howto/proxy.xml (original)
+++ tomcat/connectors/trunk/jk/xdocs/generic_howto/proxy.xml Sat Mar 21
14:03:20 2009
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
(e.g. browser) needs to talk to belong to the web server and not to the
backend, so the reverse proxy talks to a different host name and port.
When the application on the backend returns content including
-self-referencing URLs using its own backend address and port, the
+self-referential URLs using its own backend address and port, the
client will usually not be able to use these URLs.
</p>
<p>Another example is the client IP address, which for the web server is the
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
less clever reverse proxy in front of your web server, for instance an
HTTP load balancer or similar device which also serves as an SSL accelerator.
</p>
-<p>Then you are sure, all your clients use HTTPS, but your web server doesn't
+<p>Then you are sure that all your clients use HTTPS, but your web server
doesn't
know about that. All it can see is requests coming from the accelerator using
plain HTTP.
</p>
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
<p>So we might need to manipulate some of the data that AJP sends to the
backend.
When using mod_jk inside Apache httpd you can use several httpd environment
variables to let mod_jk know, which data it should forward. These environment
variables
-can be set by the httpd directives SetEnv or SetEnvIf, but also in very
flexible
+can be set by the httpd directives SetEnv or SetEnvIf, but also in a very
flexible
way using mod_rewrite (since httpd 2.x it can not only test against environment
variables, but also set them).
</p>
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
<li>secure: set to "true", if you wish <code>isSecure()</code> to return
"true".
</li>
</ul>
-Remember: in general you don't need to set those. AJP handles all cases
automatically,
+Remember: in general you don't need to set those. AJP automatically handles
all cases
where the web server running mod_jk knows the right data.
</p>
</section>
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@
the ROOT context, e.g. because only one application can be the root context
(per host).
</p>
<p>The procedure to change the URLs in the reverse proxy is tedious, because
often
-an application produces self-referencing URLs, which then include the path
components,
-that you tried to hide to the outside world. Nevertheless, if you absolutely
need to do it,
+an application produces self-referential URLs, which then include the path
components
+which you tried to hide to the outside world. Nevertheless, if you absolutely
need to do it,
here are the steps.
</p>
<p>Case A: You need to make the application available at a simple URL, but it
is OK, if
@@ -250,8 +250,8 @@
# but insert our webapp name before the rest of the URL
Header edit Location ^([^/]*//[^/]*)?/(.*)$ $1/myapp/$2
</source>
-<p>3. Use <code>mod_headers</code> again, to rewrite the pathes contained in
any cookies,
-your application might set. Such cookie pathes again might contain
+<p>3. Use <code>mod_headers</code> again, to rewrite the paths contained in
any cookies,
+your application might set. Such cookie paths again might contain
the path components you want to hide.
A cookie is set with the HTTP response header named <code>Set-Cookie</code>.
We rewrite the Set-Cookie headers of our responses:
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
</p>
</subsection>
<subsection name="URL Encoding">
-<p>Some type of problem is triggered by the use of encoded URLs
+<p>Some types of problems are triggered by the use of encoded URLs
(see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding";>percent
encoding</a>).
For the same location there exist
a lot of different URLs which are equivalent. The reverse proxy needs to
inspect the URL in order
@@ -310,8 +310,8 @@
<p>
For historical reasons, there have been several alternatives, how mod_jk and
the ISAPI
plugin encoded the resulting URL before sending it to the backend. They could
be chosen via
-<code>JkOptions</code> (Apache httpd) or <code>uri_select</code> (ISAPI). All
of those historical
-encodings are not recommended, because they have either negative functionality
implications or
+<code>JkOptions</code> (Apache httpd) or <code>uri_select</code> (ISAPI). None
of those historical
+encodings are recommended, because they have either negative functionality
implications or
pose a security risk. The default encoding since version 1.2.24 is
<code>ForwardURIProxy</code>
(Apache httpd) or <code>proxy</code> (ISAPI) and it is strongly recommended to
keep the default
and remove all old explicit settings.
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