> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Jim Jagielski > Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 14:05 > An: dev@httpd.apache.org > Betreff: Re: ping for http in mod_proxy > > > On Feb 14, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Graham Leggett wrote: > > > Akins, Brian wrote: > > > >> Yeah that was my thought. I guess you pass around the array of > >> servers. > >> Just remove (or mark as N/A) from the list and/or reorder it. At > >> the end, > >> core proxy picks whatever is in index 0 (possibly walking > the list > >> in case > >> of connection error or something). > > > > Essentially that is what proxy does now (or did before the > balancer > > stuff arrived) - it loops through everything that came back > from the > > DNS round robin query, trying to connect in turn until it gets > > something other than bad gateway. > > > > Rather than just the simplistic round robin DNS query, it should > > query a hook (in which is embedded as the sensible default, a > > simplistic round robin DNS query). > > > > Well, right now all it does is say "give me the best worker" and > leaves it up to the selected provider on "what that means", so it > queries a provider, not a hook. Of course, we could create an actual > hook which then queries providers, to allow people to extend > the selection even more...
Any specific reason why we need to add an hook here and why this cannot be done by the existing provider (interface). I am scared of adding another level of indirection here if it is not really needed and things can be already done with the existing infrastructure. Regards Rüdiger
