Better proxy support

[sala]

Transmission daemon internal web server does not work very well with different proxy configurations.

For example transmission-daemon works only in this lighttpd proxy configuration:

proxy.server = ( "/" =>
                            (
                                     ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 9091 )
                            )
               )

and not with this configuration:

proxy.server = ( "/torrents/" =>
                            (
                                     ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 9091 )
                            )
               )

and this configuration will produce nasty request looping:

proxy.server = ( "/transmission/" =>
                          (
                                     ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 9091 )
                          )
               )

Maybe it is possible to make transmission-daemon web location ("/transmission/web") more dynamic so it could work also through proxy's ("/torrents/transmission/web").

[charles]

What would you suggest?

[sala]

I am no programmer but as far as I understand web interface location is right now /transmission/web , but if it would be ./transmission/web then it should be dynamic (it could run in any sub directory, not only from the root of your domain/ip).

[jidanni]

I wish there was a checkbox

[X]Use $http_proxy

that I could uncheck, instead of happing to write a wrapper program to pull it out of the environment if I don't want transmission to see it.

[mattm]

While more flexibility around paths would be desirable, this works:

$HTTP["url"] =~ "transmission/web" {
        proxy.server = ( "" => (
        ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 9091 )
        ))
}
$HTTP["url"] =~ "transmission/rpc" {
        proxy.server = ( "" => (
        ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 9091 )
        ))
}

Perhaps a rewrite could allow you to change the url on the proxy side...

[Lafriks]

While adding this works just fine but not file upload.

$HTTP["url"] =~ "transmission/rpc" {
        proxy.server = ( "" => (
        ( "host" => "127.0.0.1", "port" => 9091 )
        ))
}

[charles]

This ticket is a duplicate of #1538.