Re: [mod_proxy] Help offered

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Gabriel Russell wrote:

> At 01:11 PM 2/7/2001 +0000, James Sutherland wrote:

Eh? The next quote was not mine!

> > > > There 2 jobs share some common code/functionnality but there are also

Not even that, perhaps - the nature of caching needed is very different.

> Forgive me for stating what may be obvious to everyone else but, Ideally,

I suspect a better solution would be a very simple, standalone daemon acting as an "http router" - just accept connections and proxy the data to/from a backend server (or a cache, perhaps) based on the request's nature (source IP, URL requested, backend load levels, whatever). I'm actually writing something which could do this anyway (in the very early stages, though!).

Plan:

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Various policies available to decide how to handle each request:

* Backend server load
* Source IP - redirect to a nearer mirror, perhaps
* URL requested - separate static and CGI requests
* Cache - if we've got a suitable cached item, send that

Thoughts??

James. Received on Wed Feb 7 22:40:55 2001