Re: [mod_proxy] Help offered

At 01:11 PM 2/7/2001 +0000, James Sutherland wrote:
> > > There 2 jobs share some common code/functionnality but there are also
> quite
> > > different.

Where they do share common code functionality, it's often not totally perfect. Looking at the code I see no compelling reason to have one code base for these two functions. Caching is the one obvious section that is clearly sharable by the two sections.

Forgive me for stating what may be obvious to everyone else but, Ideally, I'd like to see three modules:

A caching module with a generic api, such that it folks can write drop in replacements for the standard shipped module. People could then also use this module in any other module that could benefit from it, caching cgi, caching internal redirect, blah blah blah. A gateway module, just the relatively small bit of code to do proxypassing. A proxy module, most of the current functionality, minus the cache and proxypass code.

Not only do I think that this makes much more sense then the current monolithic module, but I think that it would be significantly easier to find a maintainer for each smaller module. Received on Wed Feb 7 22:25:31 2001