On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:19:23 +0200 Axel-Stéphane SMORGRAV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will create a Bugzilla report for this issue. That'll be PR#43308, in which you wrote: > In Apache 2.2.x a worker, and the associated backend connection pool, > is created for each ProxyPass directive. In that case the backend > connections will by default be persistent (reusable). > (chop - RewriteRule [P]) > I therefore suggest to modify ap_proxy_pre_request() in order to > create new workers as needed in the event of requests that do not > match an existing worker. Does this open the way to a DoS? If a rewriterule[P] enables backends to be derived from the request URI, then you're creating unlimited numbers of workers, which may never be used. Where are the limits on that? -- Nick Kew Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book http://www.apachetutor.org/
