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I have a similar use case with our APIC installation.
Our APIC instance needs to route through a proxy before going to its final destination. I know this can be done in DataPower; I would set the Backend URL to my final host name, and modify the XML Manager -> User Agent -> Proxy Policy to include the hostname and port of the proxy server sitting between DataPower and the backend. In APIC, however, we can't do this, and we can't modify the XML Manager underlying the instance.
APIC needs to send a different Request Line, not a header. [See RFC 2616, S5.1.2] While the Request-URI part of the request line is usually a path (abs_path), it is required to be an absolute URI instead when routing to a proxy. Example: "POST http://hostname:port/resource.htm". There doesn't seem to be any way to get APIC to do this.