Re: [mod_proxy] Help offered

> Where they do share common code functionality, it's often not totally

This already exists. It needs to be bulked up, and made to cache correctly, but I suggest looking at mod_cache in modules/experimental. What is there is a proof of concept, but it shouldn't be hard to expand upon.

> 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.

A proxy and a reverse proxy are incredibly similar things. The biggest difference is what is the machine that the proxy is sending the data to. In one case, that is found in the request itself, in the other it is in configuration data. These two functions really should be a single module where a good portion of the code is shared.

Take a look at the definition of a gateway in RFC2616, it is basically saying, as I read it, that this is a proxy that looks to the outside world like an origin server.

Ryan

Ryan Bloom                        	rbb@apache.org