Hello!

I hope I'm not waking you all up, it looks like this list has gone to sleep:)

I'm working on some changes to the Apache proxy module to make it more useful to me in a project that I'm working on. I've read through the back log of messages in this group and it looks like you are all working on the Apache 2.0 fork, but because I'm looking to move my changes into production, I need to work on the 1.2 fork. Most of the options have to do with making the proxy work better as a gateway/load balancer.

Some of the changes that I'm working on include: An option to preserve the original Host header so that reverse-proxying to vhosts and other things (like Verity) will work. (this is done, but probably needs some tuning)
An option to force caching of certain types of files (gifs,etc.) even if they are set not to cache.
And an option to set a minimum expiration time for all cacheable documents. (in process)
And down the line, making load-balancing work better: eliminating the need to rewrite urls, introducing failover modes, etc.

If any of this has already been done, then great, point me at them. Is anyone else working on things like these? Do any of these ideas sound interesting or useful to anyone? Do you all here want to see some patches from time to time? I've never hacked on Apache before so I'm not really sure what the process it. What do you all think?

Thank you
Gabriel Russell Received on Fri Dec 15 18:33:30 2000