Re: proxy health checks [was: Proxying OPTIONS *]

2007-10-04 Thread Akins, Brian
In our proxy, we launch an external helper app the does active health checking of the origin servers. This is a HEAD request on a configurable (per origin pool) uri (ie, http://host:port/url/blah). When an origin passes/fails a given number of checks it is marked up/down. For example, when an

proxy health checks [was: Proxying OPTIONS *]

2007-10-03 Thread Rainer Jung
Jim Jagielski wrote: On Oct 2, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Ruediger Pluem wrote: Slightly off topic, but this gives me the idea that we could use OPTIONS * as some kind of ping / health check for pooled connections in mod_proxy_http before sending a request (at least in the reverse proxy case before

Re: proxy health checks [was: Proxying OPTIONS *]

2007-10-03 Thread Nick Kew
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:04:52 +0200 Rainer Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice to have the health check running asynchronously from the normal request handling (error detection for idle connections, before requests fail). Even more important, the recovery test could be done