[Mod_gzip] Please help: mod_gzip through SSL

[Jose Galeano]

Hi there,
I don't know if this has been asked before but I was searching the list and couldn't find anything.....

My problem is that I need to have gzip compressing through ssl..... (what's new?).... well... the twist is that my setup is apache and tomcat.... multple virtual hosts (port 80, ssl, and gzip).... in the ideal scenario gzip would pass control to tomcat. The problem being that I need to recover the client's IP address when I get to tomcat, but by then I've been proxied from one virtual host to another and the IP address I see is the one of the virtual host.... any idea on how I could fix this problem? any workaround? (I've been trying to change the request to include a "fake" parameter in the request using mod_rewrite to no avail)

Please write your thoughts to Jose.Galeano@kinek.com..... thanks in advance for your time and help.

Jose Galeano