Brian Rectanus wrote:
Comments on the idea of this?
I was just going to point out that it's definitely useful being able to specify separate connection and actual request timeouts. From a quick look at your diff, you already have this in mind. :)
An example: with a reverse proxy, you might expect to be able to connect to a backend server on the same network within milliseconds, so a connection timeout of a couple of seconds is reasonable (give up, try the next server); but the actual response could take much longer to generate.
It would be nice to have the connection timeout as a proper directive - rather than only as a parameter to ProxyPass - so that people enabling mod_proxy via other mechanisms can set it. Also so that you can set a default in one place, rather than having to repeat it in multiple ProxyPass statements.
Also, the option setting stuff (from http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11540) is already fixed in trunk (and 2.2.x branch), so you might want to base your work off that.
HTH -- Stuart
