Comment 3 for bug 1643900

The current design in MAAS is consistent with other "enterprise" web applications. Customers want to be able to add additional proxies in front of MAAS. This could be for HA purposes, for security reasons (SSL/TLS), etc.

Another requirement is, all traffic to the MAAS web interface needs to flow over a single port. Some people use TCP port redirection with SSH in order to gain access to MAAS. A redirect would introduce a second port, and break those users.

For the record, I don't think we should drop the Apache port 80 proxy configuration. It's a good validation that we operate correctly behind a proxy.