I'm in the process of setting of Apache 2.2 with mod_proxy to reverse
proxy some websites under one URL. I've discovered that the proxy is
"decoding" the html encoding in my pages. i.e. I have a copyright
symbol using the "ampersand" followed by "copy;" Not going through the
proxy, when you view source you see it as it was typed into the page.
Going through the proxy, if you view source, you actually see the
copyright symbol as you see it in the browser. I won't go into any
specifics but there are times when we don't see the symbols as we
should, we are instead seeing some accented A's and other garbage.
Every time, a view source reveals the symbols are no longer HTML
encoded but have the actual symbol in the page.