The same effect is already possible by configuring your proxying machine to stop forwarding new requests to that box first.... Of course, it's possible that different people manage the proxying service vs the back end apache services, so I can see how it can be desireable to have this feature in apache too, but still those two people should always be working pretty closely together anyway...
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Stoddard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 8:53 AM Subject: Graceful shutdown in 2.0 > Has anyone ever thought about the best way to implement graceful > shutdown (perhaps with a timeout) in the server? This would be a > useful function to have where there is a cluster of http servers (in a > DMZ for instance) proxying requests to a farm backend application > servers. If you need to take an http server completely offline, you > could issue something like apachectl shutdown_graceful [timeout] and > prevent that server from accepting any new connections but allow the > existing requests to be completed w/o disruption (subject to a timeout). > > Bill >
