JT Smith wrote:
> I'd like to write a handler that would serve big files out of a local
> cache but proxy everything else through to another server. The situation
> is that there is an extranet in the US, but a lot of folks in New
> Zealand need access to the file downloads. I don't want to replicate the
> whole installation in NZ, but instead, give them a seperate server with
> mod_proxy set up so that when they request most pages it proxies them
> through from the main server, but when they ask for a really big file in
> the /uploads path that it can pull it out of local cache.
>
> Here's what I have so far:
>
> package CacheHandler;
>
> use Apache2::Request;
> use Apache2::Const;
>
> sub handler {
> my $r = shift;
> if ($r->uri =~ m/^\/uploads/) {
> my $path = "/data/cache".$r->uri;
> if (-f $path) {
> # make it serve up this local file since it exists
> }
> }
else {
my $real_url = $r->unparsed_uri;
$r->proxyreq(1);
$r->uri($real_url);
$r->filename("proxy:$real_url");
$r->handler('proxy-server');
}
> return Apache2::Const::DECLINED;
> }
>
> 1;And then you don't need ProxyPass anymore. See http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/RequestRec.html#C_proxyreq_ for more details > And here's the virtual host I've set up: > > <VirtualHost *:80> > ServerName extranet > SSLProxyEngine on > DocumentRoot "/data/cache" > ProxyPass / https://example.com/ > PerlModule CacheHandler > PerlInitHandler CacheHandler > </VirtualHost> > > What can I add into my handler to make it circumvent the ProxyPass > directive? Or if I can't do that, how can I tell it to enable ProxyPass > on any request where I don't pass those other conditions? > > Thanks for any assistance you can provide in advance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philippe M. Chiasson m/gozer\@(apache|cpan|ectoplasm)\.org/ GPG KeyID : 88C3A5A5 http://gozer.ectoplasm.org/ F9BF E0C2 480E 7680 1AE5 3631 CB32 A107 88C3A5A5
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