Mod_rewrite?

--- allan juul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> 

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