On Thursday, April 12, 2001, at 11:07 PM, Graham Leggett wrote:
Chuck Murcko wrote:
3) redesign to be a multiprotocol router in 2.0
We should be there already - as of now we can (if not then bug) deliver content hosted on both a webserver and an ftp server, in addition to the normal deliver content from filesystem and executable binary (CGI).
I have plans to include the ability to serve LDAP URLS as well - allowing you to serve pages directly from attributes in an LDAP server. (The need I have is to embed LDAP attributes in a page, using an LDAP MPR and mod_include, instead of the klunky CGIs I use right now).
Heck, even SQL is a possibility :)
Mod_proxy.c has to get redone as a filter to really do this in a way that you don't add code to it every time you write a new protocol filter. Plus we need to talk about how to get rid of the proxy: hack so the server core can finish getting protocol neutral.
Connection pooling would be nice to have, but is simplest to do and most useful in reverse proxies. Connection pooling in a forward proxy is more interesting, but harder to do efficiently.
Chuck Chuck Murcko Topsail Group http://www.topsail.org/
