Host header not properly set in proxied request

[jeffsawatzky]

here is my config:

connect: {
      server: {
        options: {
          port: 8000,
          base: 'src',
          keepalive: true,
          middleware: function (connect, options) {
            var proxy = require('grunt-connect-proxy/lib/utils').proxyRequest;
            return [
              proxy,
              connect.static(options.base[0]),
              connect.directory(options.base[0])
              ];
          }
        },
        proxies: [{
          context: '/otherapi',
          host: 'www.other.com',
          port: 80,
          https: false,
          headers: {
            'host': 'www.other.com'
          },
          rewrite: {
            '^/otherapi': '/api'
          }
        }]
      }
    }
  });

Which works, and successfully proxies all XHR requests to http://localhost:8000/otherapi to http://www.other.com/api. However, without the headers option, the proxy doesn't work. The request is sent to the ip for www.other.com but the host header is still localhost:8000 and the api request fails. I had to add the extra host header to get it to work, which I don't think should be required.

[jeffsawatzky]

Apparently setting:

changeOrigin: true

fixes the issue without having to specify the headers. Still, though, why isn't this the default behaviour?

[jeffsawatzky]

in version 0.1.11, changeOrigin seems to have broken...

[omanizer]

Having exact same issue, tried on 0.1.10 as well and still need to add headers.host to make it work.

[outaTiME]

Same issue here =(

[k7n4n5t3w4rt]

Ditto for 0.2.0. Maybe it's the new way. Adding this here in case it's driving someone crazy like it did me.

I had to include "headers":

  proxies: [{
    context: '/api', // the context of the data service
    host: 'tidespy.com', // wherever the data service is running
    port: 80, // the port that the data service is running on
    headers: {
        'host': 'tidespy.com'
      }
  }],

[m11m]

I don't even get a request sent unless I add the host header...

Packet capture with wireshark verifies, without host header, it opens connections but never sends the HTTP request...