Modifying headers with IIS7 Application Request Routing

I’m using IIS7 Application Request Routing in front of Tomcat as a replacement for ISAPI redirection. The basic reverse proxy function is working well, but I don’t have enough information in the final request headers. My application exists on several subdomains: customerone.ourservice.com, customertwo.ourservice.com, etc. Each subdomain runs the same application, but with different branding graphics.

The application currently looks at the Host header to tell which branding to display. When I use the IIS7 reverse proxy, that information is lost. My headers are now:

accept = text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
accept-charset = ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
accept-encoding = gzip,deflate
accept-language = en-gb,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3
cookie = JSESSIONID=......
host = 127.0.0.1:8080
max-forwards = 10
user-agent = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009102815 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.15
x-original-url = /
x-forwarded-for = [iis7ip]:47567
x-arr-log-id = affbf81c-a5cf-4212-a43b-901cd9adcee6
connection = Keep-Alive

Is there any way I can insert the original Host header into the request headers passed on by the reverse proxy?

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Method 1

Application Request Routing has an option to preserve the original host header: preserveHostHeader. This option is by default false. You can enable it with:

"C:WindowsSystem32inetsrvappcmd.exe" set config -section:system.webServer/proxy /preserveHostHeader:"True" /commit:apphost

Method 2

You could set the preserveHostHeader flag by hand.

    <proxy enabled="true" preserveHostHeader="true" />

</system.webServer>

In the iis configuration gui you can find this value under system.webServer/proxy.

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