On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Igor Sysoev wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Joseph Wayne Norton wrote: > > > After I read your posting, I downloaded but haven't tried to install > > the mod_accel. From you description, it looks like a very, powerful > > module with pretty much the features that I have been looking for. > > Can mod_accel work with the mod_rewrite module (in a fashion similar? > > mod_accel can work with mod_rewrite as mod_proxy does ([P] flag) > but mod_proxy would loose this functionality if mod_accel installed. > In all other cases mod_proxy can work with mod_accel in one Apache. > > > In conjunction with mod_rewrite as url filter, I would like to be able > > to use mod_accel as a proxy for only the http request portion of a > > client request and allow for the http response portion to be served > > directly from the backend to the client. This would be useful in > > situations where the response does not (or should not) have to be > > cached by the mod_accel cache. However, I think this type of > > tcp-handoff cannot be performed soley by an application process such > > as apache. Have you a similiar requirement or experience? > > No. > > But mod_accel can simply proxies request without caching. > You can set 'AccelNoCache on' on per-server, per-Location and per-Files > basis. You can send 'X-Accel-Expires: 0' header from backend. > You can use usual 'Cache-Control: no-cache" or Expires headers.
Even more. mod_accel by default did not cache response if it has not positive "Expires" or "Cache-Control" headers. But you can cache these responses using AccelDefaultExpires or AccelLastModifiedFactor directives. Igor Sysoev
