People interested in mod_proxy have talked about that kind of scope several times.
It seems the constipation comes when we talk about current functionality. I don't see a conflict in moving from the current code base to a new redesigned one. I just see the current code as a reference proxy for 2.0, and no more. 2.1 or earlier would hopefully release with a redesigned, high performance proxy. But would that design be a drop in replacement for the old one? Or would it give the new design more freedom to have mod_proxy_orig around to deal with that issue? On Tuesday, February 6, 2001, at 07:13 PM, Sander van Zoest wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Philippe M . Chiasson wrote: > > > I know of at least 2 very different uses for the mod_proxy module > > currently. > > The first one is to act as a caching HTTP proxy, but the second is to make > > a > > lightweight doc server proxy some requests to a heavyweight server > > (mod_perl). > > There 2 jobs share some common code/functionnality but there are also quite > > different. > > > > I think it would be wise to consider splitting these 2 tasks up to. > > Although it should considered, I think the power of an apache proxy server > would be the fact that it could do both of these tasks. I would consider > a proxy type of project to be more along the lines of what Dean Gaudet has > been refering to as an "http router". Everyone is doing this one way or > another and this is also part of squid now (with their accelerated support). > > If some people add a reliable cache that talks HTCP and ICP and whatever they > feel is useful that would be a bonus. Having access via different languages > to > the proxy/router stream can be very beneficial as well. > > Maybe if the project would come out with that sort of scope more people would > be interested in helping out. I would definately use it and submit patches > if I can not find the time to work on it in a fuller capacity. > > -- > Sander van Zoest [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Covalent Technologies, Inc. > http://www.covalent.net/ > (415) 536-5218 > http://www.vanzoest.com/sander/ > > > > Chuck Murcko Topsail Group http://www.topsail.org/
