On Saturday, March 17, 2001, at 11:07 PM, Ian Holsman wrote:

>  
> I hate this stuff. 
>  
I assume you're talking about autoconf. 8^( Me too.
>   
>  
>  >> is there a problem with other mpm's ?? I intend on using the threaded  
>  >> mpm.. does 
>  >> mod_proxy have threading issues? 
>  >>  
>  
>  >Heh heh. My friend, you have stumbled into the strange world of 
>  >The mod_proxy Twilight Zone, Act II 
>  
>  >Check the new-httpd archives for mod_proxy status. We're doing 2) 2.0  
> here, using 
>  >the Ryan-regrooved proxy_httpd.c code. It *should* be safe, but I'm  
> testing 
>  >protocol issues now. But I doubt it. 8^) The aim is to reintegrate with 
>  >httpd-2.0 during beta so we can get on with 3) 2.0+. You can help fix this 
>  >stuff, if you like. 
>  
>  
> I'll try. 
> we're looking into using 2.0 for our new web site (which should launch  
> in ~6 months) 
> providing we get the OK from up above (their a bit worried about support  
> and being 
> guinea pigs, for good reason) we should have a couple of developers  
> working on 2.0 modules 
> in the near future. (The developers, unlike me, have been developing 1.3  
> modules for a long time) 
>  

6 months; you should be fine. We're looking to wrap up this work here soon
so we can get to writing the new proxy. By then httpd-2.0 threaded should
be up to the performance of preforked.

> One of the features we need is the reverse proxy, with the additonal  
> feature of passing cookies back from the 
> app server to the client. 
>  

Yes, ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse seem to be the top requested features.

> Oh.. 
> as an aside, is anyone looking at win32 & proxy ? 
> (from CVS code pulled on friday) It looks conn->remote_addr is not being  
> set  in ap_new_connection  (when called from ap_proxy_http_handler) 
> causing it to GPF. It looks like maybe the pool is not correct. 
> 

No one is yet, AFAIK, other than the odd rollup fix.
 
> I'm very new at 2.0, so I'm not sure what a pool is ;-).. but that will  
> be fixed soon. 
>  

It's filters, man, filters. 8^)

> Oh .. I built it on 2 machines, so I don't think it is my compile ....  
> this time 
>  
Cool.
Chuck Murcko
Topsail Group
http://www.topsail.org/

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