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Re: HTTP headers are incorrectly treated case sensitive by jClouds causing OpenStack x-storage-url to fail

 

On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 17:00 -0700, Ali, Saqib wrote:
> We are using the jclouds library for connection to OpenStack Swift
> (grizzly) cloud storage, and are running into the following
> issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-155
> 
> We are using Apache web front for the swift proxy as defined
> here:http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/apache_deployment_guide.html
> 
> Essentially the issue is that the Apache web front (using mod-wsgi)
> returns a lower case header (x-storage-url), whereas jClouds is
> expecting it to be X-Storage-URL (case-sensitive).
> 
> So the jClouds is being case-sensitive. When it shouldn't be. 
> 
> Is there anything we can do to work around this, while someone from
> the jClouds community fixes this issue?
> 
> 
> This is a rather urgent issue. Any help will be highly appreciated.

I have a middleware i use in testing which simply renames headers to do
ProxyPass-ing env variables through apache. You'll need to modify it
somewhat to get what you are looking for, but as a stop-gap you can use
this: 



> Thanks!
> 
> Saqib
> 
> 
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