On Feb 13, 2008, at 1:09 PM, Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group wrote:
Right. Furthermore I guess we could create a generic module that
needs a
URL configured for a HEAD request that only replies 200 if the
backend can
still handle more requests. If it does not respond or with a
different code
this backend would be dead. I guess this module needs to fork a
separate
process / thread to do this checking periodically and modify the
worker status
accordingly.
So much interesting work and so few time :-(.
Or send a custom request header that has Apache respond with
a custom response header that contains specific health
info...