On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 07:13, Bill Stoddard wrote:
> Consider mod_proxy used to serve as a proxy gateway (aka reverse proxy) to a
> set of backend servers. Seems that it would be useful to maintain a pool of
> connections to the backend servers and multiplex HTTP requests over these
> connections (to save connection setup and takedown). Anyone have any ideas
> on whether this would be a worthwhile performance improvement?
>
I was thinking of doing something like this for quite some time.
the only issues I can see are
keepalives..
* do they handle things like cookies per request or per
connection?
* authentication
* handling of keepalive timeouts might be tricky
* ie.. do keepalives keep some state, I am never sure
there are also some other minor problems if you want to load balance the
backendservers, as that would break.
The reason I never pursued it was due to the backends we use being so
pathetic that they can't even handle simple Keep-alives without falling
over.
Oh apr_reslist would be a good starting point for this.
> Bill
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