Re: [mod_proxy] Help offered

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Philippe M . Chiasson wrote:

> I know of at least 2 very different uses for the mod_proxy module currently.
> The first one is to act as a caching HTTP proxy, but the second is to make a
> lightweight doc server proxy some requests to a heavyweight server (mod_perl).
> There 2 jobs share some common code/functionnality but there are also quite
> different.
>
> I think it would be wise to consider splitting these 2 tasks up to.
  

Although it should considered, I think the power of an apache proxy server would be the fact that it could do both of these tasks. I would consider a proxy type of project to be more along the lines of what Dean Gaudet has been refering to as an "http router". Everyone is doing this one way or another and this is also part of squid now (with their accelerated support).

If some people add a reliable cache that talks HTCP and ICP and whatever they feel is useful that would be a bonus. Having access via different languages to the proxy/router stream can be very beneficial as well.

Maybe if the project would come out with that sort of scope more people would be interested in helping out. I would definately use it and submit patches if I can not find the time to work on it in a fuller capacity.

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