Can traefik rewrite the location header of redirect responses (302)

Question

I am using traefik 2.0.2 as reverse proxy in front of some services. One backend services is returning a redirect response (302), where the location header contains the absolute redirected url. The url of the backend is not reachable from the outside, how can I rewrite the location to go through the reverse proxy again?

E.g. a client requests http://my-domain/foo and receives a 302 response with location header containing http://backend:8080/foo/bar/, which of course will not work.

I am looking for something similar to ProxyPassReverse of apache mod_proxy. I have read through the available middlewares of traefik, but nothing seems to fit my requirement.

My simplified configuration:

# traefik.yml
entryPoints:
  web:
    address: ":80"

providers:
  file:
    filename: "dynamic-conf.yml"

# dynamic-conf.yml
http:
  routers:
    router1:
      entryPoints:
        - web
      service: service1
      rule: "PathPrefix(`/foo`)"
  services:
    service1
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: http://backend:8080

Answer 1

I did not find an option to rewrite the location header of a service response using traefik. A feature request to replaceResponseHeaders exists.

My (temporary) solution is to perform the redirection in traefik using the RedirectRegex middleware, such that the backend service does not need to response with a redirect.

The updated configuration would look like this:

# dynamic-conf.yml
http:
  routers:
    router1:
      entryPoints:
        - web
      service: service1
      rule: "PathPrefix(`/foo`)"
      middlewares:
        - my-redirect
  middlewares:
    my-redirect: # Workaround for service1 redirection
      redirectRegex:
        regex: "^https?://[^/]+/foo/?$"
        replacement: "/foo/webapp/"
  services:
    service1
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: http://backend:8080

Answer 2

I had the same issue as you, could not resolve it with your solution, but now, with the traefik plugins, we can:

Static config:

pilot:
  token: "xxxx"

experimental:
  plugins:
    rewriteHeaders:
      modulename: "github.com/XciD/traefik-plugin-rewrite-headers"
      version: "v0.0.2"

Dynamic config:

http:
  routes:
    my-router:
      rule: "Host(`localhost`)"
      service: "my-service"
      middlewares : 
        - "rewriteHeaders"
  services:
    my-service:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: "http://127.0.0.1"
  middlewares:
    rewriteHeaders:
      plugin:
        rewriteHeaders:
          header: "Location"
          regex: "^http://(.+)$"
          replacement: "https://$1"

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the plugin