Hello,


we will use pound for loadbalancing a handful of apache webservers.
We now started porting one webserver to pound. So pound gets the 
official ip address of the webserver
and has two listeners on this ip, http and https.

Here is our constellation:

-----------               ---------               --------
| Client PC |             | Pound   |             | Apache |
|           |  -- 1. -->  | 2.3.2-2 |  -- 2. -->  | 2.0.52 |
-----------               ---------               --------

1. get https://www.server.com
2. get /

And here is the pound configuration:

User            "nobody"
Group           "nobody"
RootJail        "/usr/share/pound"
Control         "/var/run/pound/ctl_socket"

# syslog facility, see /etc/syslog.conf
LogFacility     local5

# apache combined like log format - with service and backend
LogLevel        5

# close connection if client doesnt send anything for this period
Client          60

# how long pound will wait for response from the backend server
TimeOut         120

ListenHTTP
       Address                 1.1.1.1
       Port                    80
       xHTTP                   1
       Service
               BackEnd
                       Address 192.168.1.1
                       Port    80
               End
               Session
                       Type    BASIC
                       TTL     3600
               End
       End
End
ListenHTTPS
       Address                 1.1.1.1
       Port                    443
       Cert                    "/usr/share/ssl/certs/server.com.pem"
       Ciphers                 
"ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL"
       xHTTP                   1
       Service
               BackEnd
                       Address 192.168.1.1
                       Port    80
               End
               Session
                       Type    BASIC
                       TTL     3600
               End
       End
End

The redirection works fine, but if the user (client pc) requests a 
directory name without the trailing slash,
e.g. https://www.server.com/test the
apache redirects to the same url 
but with the trailing slash.
At this time the client pc is redirected to http://www.server.com/test/.
As you can see, the protocol changed from https to http. We didn't 
purpose this behavior.

The apache webserver is configured with UseCanonicalName Off.

What else can we check? Can Pound fix the protocol change?

Thanks for your help

Matthias Pueschel
Germany