hi
i need advice before i waste too much time on the bleeding obvious.
we have a setup where we will reverse proxy content both to our own backend-servers (which run on IIS) and other external servers which content we dont control. one of the reasons we proxy is because of speed/performance
we have an Apache 2.054 up front on port 80 and the backend is on the same machine which is running windows 2004
we need to fix broken img src, and absolute links and that sort of thing coming from the external servers
i have fiddled with mod_proxy_html to rewrite stuff and that works ok, but have some features that doesn't mix well with our solution (content -type is encoded utf-8, where we proxy to iso-8859-1 for instance. or some html tags are stripped etc.) also caching becomes slower because of this output filter it seems (i guess because of unknown content-length)
it seems way overkill to have a mod_perl enabled frontend, but i'm pretty confident we could write a mod_perl filter to do the content rewrites we need.
so, is a mod_perl-enabled Apache acting as a proxy just a sick idea. it will proxy content and the filter will have to scan all response content
hope someone can wipe this down right away ;)
./allan
