> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Leggett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wed, May 16, 2001 3:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dynamic Reverse Proxying
> 
> 
> Ian Holsman wrote:
> 
> > no..nothing to do with load balancing.
> 
> Ok...
> 
> > heres the situation...
> > we have multiple apps running through one server, and we
> > determine what app the page gets passed to
> > depending on a part of the file name.
> > 
> > so for example /news/story/123-123-12 would go to the
> > story application,
> > where /news/lists/123-0-12-1 would go to a another and
> > /news/blah/12312-123 would be served from disk
> 
> This is already possible:
> 
> ProxyPass /news/story/ http://backend/cgi-bin/story_app?id=
> 
<offtopic>
actually the '?' gets parsed into a %3F (is this a bug?) which
stuffs up our java app.
</offtopic>

 
> This kind of functionality definitely has scope outside the proxy,
> because it is quite possible that apps you are trying to hide behind
> URLs are located on the same server. I have a feeling mod_rewrite will
> do this for you already, or if it doesn't, this is where modification
> should be made so it should. 

> The proxy should only be doing 
> one thing - proxying. Other apps should be handled by other bits of Apache.

yep.. I agree about proxy doing only proxying
at the moment there are 2 different ways for mod proxy to get called..
I was thinking of doing it a 3rd, but I'll just stick to re-writing the 
filenames
and hardcoding the proxy lines.
> 
> Regards,
> Graham
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