port 80 keyserver access, again (was Re: [Sks-devel] SKS and Apache2 :-))

[Jason Harris]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:21:48PM -0600, Chris Kuethe wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2004, Jan Kesten wrote:

> > I tried out Apache2 and it reverse proxy feature and found something
> > interesting to make sks webqueries work with a restrictive firewall
> > blocking access to port 11371:

> I just use absolute paths, without the server name:
>       <form action="/pks/lookup" method="get"> 

> That way the browser can figure it out... i'm still running apache 1,
> with this in my httpd.conf:
> 
> <VirtualHost 129.128.11.77>
>     Options Indexes
>     ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:11371/
>     ServerName pgp.cns.ualberta.ca
> </VirtualHost>

This can also be done with (a slightly modified version of) the PHP page
floating around, but it does require a change to GPG to fully work.  Add:

    sprintf( request, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
    iobuf_writestr( hd.fp_write, request );

just before:

    sprintf( request, "Content-Length: %u\r\n",
                      (unsigned)iobuf_get_temp_length(temp) + 9 );  
    iobuf_writestr( hd.fp_write, request );
    m_free( request );

in hkp.c, then use:

  ./gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.kjsl.com:80 -v --send <key>

to send me a key.  --recv works _without_ modifying GPG, since
the PHP doesn't need to access "keytext" from the form/request.

On the Apache side, the trick is to add:

  SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

to your .htaccess in /pks.

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