lib/Foswiki.pm at line 1693 should be modified to check whether the urlHost begins with 'http://localhost' rather than being equal to it. This fixes edge cases such as mine, where a proxy-passing setup means the urlHost is actually 'http://localhost:81'.

This was asked as a question here: http://foswiki.org/Support/Question842

-- JustinClarke - 22 Apr 2011

er, wow.

I use mod_proxy_html and other mess, and here you are with another simpler solution.

thankyou. I've changed it so that you use the 'RemovePort' option, and then we compare to http://localhost - can you tell me if that works for you?

-- SvenDowideit -

Does this need to accommodate https: and not just http:

-- GeorgeClark - 08 Mar 2012

I really don't know.

    if ( $url && $url =~ m{^([^:]*://[^/]*).*$} ) {
        $this->{urlHost} = $1;

        if ( $Foswiki::cfg{RemovePortNumber} ) {
            $this->{urlHost} =~ s/\:[0-9]+$//;
        }
        # If the urlHost in the url is localhost, this is a lot less
        # useful than the default url host. This is because new CGI("")
        # assigns this host by default - it's a default setting, used
        # when there is nothing better available.
        if ( $this->{urlHost} =~ /(https?):\/\/localhost/i ) {
            my $protocol = $1;
            $this->{urlHost} = $Foswiki::cfg{DefaultUrlHost};
        }

lets say for a moment that I do test for both http and https as above, what should happen? should both be unconditionally re-written to point to the one protocol (ie, force http to always be https or visversa, or should DefaultUrlHost be changed depending on incoming protocol, or what?)

I find the entire thing a bit horrifyingly obtuse, and always get annoyed that my foswiki is re-writing my url's if i'm using localhost.

clearly, some really really strong docco explaining why you'd want to do what would help - I can't say i entirely understandy why the RemovePortNumber configure option exists - and the help for it tells me nothing about the use case.

SO, I'm going to wimp out and write it this way:

    #{urlHost}  is needed by loadSession..
    my $url = $query->url();
    if ( $url && $url =~ m{^([^:]*://[^/]*).*$} ) {
        $this->{urlHost} = $1;

        if ( $Foswiki::cfg{RemovePortNumber} ) {
            $this->{urlHost} =~ s/\:[0-9]+$//;
        }
        # If the urlHost in the url is localhost, this is a lot less
        # useful than the default url host. This is because new CGI("")
        # assigns this host by default - it's a default setting, used
        # when there is nothing better available.
        if ( $this->{urlHost} =~ /(https?):\/\/localhost/i ) {
            my $protocol = $1;
            #only replace localhost _if_ the protocol matches the one specified in the DefaultUrlHost
            if ($Foswiki::cfg{DefaultUrlHost} =~ /^$protocol/i ) {
                $this->{urlHost} = $Foswiki::cfg{DefaultUrlHost};
            }
        }
    }
    else {
        $this->{urlHost} = $Foswiki::cfg{DefaultUrlHost};
    }

-- SvenDowideit - 10 Mar 2012

ok, re-written it after writing unit tests - which meant adding (some) support for full url processing in Unit::Request

-- SvenDowideit - 14 Mar 2012

Re-titled for release notes, because I had no idea what this was about when I first read it.

-- PaulHarvey - 14 Mar 2012