Feature Request: Allow configuration of URL path in 1 place about pcaphar HOT 11 CLOSED

Thank you for using pcaphar. However, I don't think I understand your request. 
What are the problems do you have when proxying? How do you config you proxy?

I run pcaphar using the dev version of google app engine. The exact command I 
use is: screen -d -m dev_appserver.py --port=8081 --address=172.28.4.52 src/ 
This binds to an internal IP and port 8081 of my network. The machine where 
pcaphar is running also runs other http services on other non standard ports.

To deal with this I have Apache running a reverse proxy on port 80. I would 
like to have http://hostname/pcap2har/ reverse proxied to http://hostname:8081/

To do this without changing anything inside of pcaphar, I would need to rewrite 
every url and resource on the fly using mod_proxy_html. This is the httpd 
configuration I tried to use to do this: http://pastebin.com/2eAeypX9 but it 
did not work consistently. The harviewer portion required multiple page reloads 
to load a complete waterfall with css etc.

If I could run pcaphar at http://hostname:8081/pcap2har/ then proxying it to be 
at http://hostname/pcap2har would be much easier.

To do this, I tried to modify the app.yaml file like so: 
http://pastebin.com/LjWgYbT2

However this will still not work, and requires further modification of the 
pcaphar.py file. At that point, it becomes extremely difficult to manage. 
Especially if this software package is ever updated. 

Just wanted to check in to see if my explanation made sense or if you need more 
information.

Thanks for the following up. I have tried myself for proxying and am working on 
a fix to make it easy for proxying. I have a working prototype now, will update 
when it is ready.

Thanks for digging further into it. I am really excited to see this get fixed!

I will be updating the source code with this week. Thanks for your patience. I 
have working version of proxy for testing at http://a.instwave.com/pcap2har/. 
Let me know if you encounter any problems. 

Tested it with some basic content and it worked without issue. Thanks much! 
Looking forward to the new commit.

Checked code in as of r59.

I set this up, and it works fine as long as I proxy hostname:8081/ to 
hostname:80/

But hostname:8081/ to hostname:80/pcap2har does not work after submitting the 
har file.  It redirects to hostname:80/view?hash_str=HASH

Could you please share the proxy configuration you use in the 
http://a.instwave.com/pcap2har/ example?

I just wanted to follow up on this to see if you would be willing to share your 
proxy config.

Sorry for the late reply, I have to dig up to foudn the config. Here it is:
        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule ^/pcap2har$ /pcap2har/ [R]

        ProxyRequests Off
        ProxyPass /pcap2har/ http://pcapperf.appspot.com/
        ProxyPassReverse /pcap2har/ http://pcapperf.appspot.com/

This is just for my test, so the whole config is very simple. I copy and paste 
it here for your reference:
$ cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-proxy 
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www

        RewriteEngine on
        RewriteRule ^/pcap2har$ /pcap2har/ [R]

        ProxyRequests Off
        ProxyPass /pcap2har/ http://pcapperf.appspot.com/
        ProxyPassReverse /pcap2har/ http://pcapperf.appspot.com/

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn
    #LogLevel debug

    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>