[ruby-core:33872] Bug in Webrick httprequest.rb using multiple proxies and fix

Hi.

This is my first post to this mailing list, so please tell me, if I 
posted this the wrong place, or I in any other way should do something 
different.

I have been playing around with Webrick for some time now, and decided 
to set up a virtual machine with a hosted webrick based application.

For every request, the request goes through two Apache proxies because 
of lack of IP adresses. The forwarded hostname is therefore split by 
commas like this:

Host= domain.com, someotherdomainoorip.com


Webrick doesnt handle this well. It looks like it only supports one 
single forwarded hostname.

This can however easily be fixed by changing like 291 in httprequest.rb 
from:

host, port = @forwarded_host, @forwarded_port

To:

host, port = @forwarded_host.split(",")[0].strip, @forwarded_port



If not, Webrick will not handle the request and raise an error.


My fix may be more than a hack than a fix, but for now it works and 
makes Webrick actually handle the request instead of crashing. I have 
attached a .diff I made with Subversion.


Thank you for a great programming language.


-- 
Kasper Johansen