I'm in the process of writing a transparent HTTP proxy in PERL.

Essentially I'd like this to sit between the web server and the app server and act as sort of a "2nd proxy" that provides a lot more detailed request manipulation logic than I can get out of the proxy modules in Apache or NGINX or something.

To start with, I've considered going with an existing module like HTTP::Proxy, or attempting to augment NGINX or Apache to accomplish this, but for a couple or reasons I'd rather not get into, I'd rather stick with writing my own, so lets just assume that's the way I need to go for the purposes of this discussion.

Essentially I'm "catching" the request via standard CGI, manipulating it and/or routing it based on some pretty obscure logic and then reformulating the request with LWP and then spitting the response back to the upstream webserver, which turns around and hands it to the browser... dumb I know, but this is a dumb situation. I have pretty much everything working, standard GET/POST requests, 302/301 redirects, etc... but the one place I'm having trouble that I can't figure out is how to pass cookies through this layer.

So if I have an app that is hidden behind a login screen, how do I pull the session cookie out of the standard HTTP::Response object I get when I post the login form and get that back to the browser?

Any ideas are *super* appreciated!!!!

In reply to Passing cookies through a PERL HTTP Proxy by cls33

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