On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 5:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> + /*
> + * In the case that we are handling a reverse proxy connection and this
> + * is not a request that is coming over an already kept alive connection
> + * with the client, do NOT reuse the connection to the backend, because
> + * we cannot forward a failure to the client in this case as the client
> + * does NOT expects this in this situation.
> + * Yes, this creates a performance penalty.
> + */
> + if ((r->proxyreq == PROXYREQ_REVERSE) && (!c->keepalives)
> + && (apr_table_get(r->subprocess_env, "proxy-initial-not-pooled"))) {
> + backend->close = 1;
> + }
> +
Reviewing backport at a high level, am I following correctly?
"forward a failure" here is closing the TCP connection to the client
in response to a presumed keepalive timeout (or crash) at the origin
server, and the browser doesn't go into the same recovery if we do
this on the initial request.
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Eric Covener
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
