Re: ProxyPreserveHost - added functionality

2011-02-24 Thread Jeffrey E Burgoyne
14:12:44 -0500 Jeffrey E Burgoyne burgo...@keenuh.com wrote: If people feel this is a worthwhile addition to the main code base, please let me know and I'll pass it back. Not sure I follow exactly what you've added. How big a patch is your change? If it's not too big to admit easy

Re: ProxyPreserveHost - added functionality

2011-02-24 Thread Jeffrey E Burgoyne
No pain, I wanted something simple so people can decide if the concept is worth having. I figured that if I require it, eventually some else eventually will as well : ht01b07:~/apacheConfig/tarball/httpd-2.2.14/modules/proxy # diff -u mod_proxy.h mod_proxy.h.real --- mod_proxy.h 2011-02-24

Re: ProxyPreserveHost - added functionality

2011-02-24 Thread Jeffrey E Burgoyne
as opposed to Location /cgi-bin http://otherserver.com/cgi-bin /Location So I just went with that style. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Jeffrey E Burgoyne burgo...@keenuh.com wrote: I am doing some work with a large organization that has recently acquired two products that work

Re: ProxyPreserveHost - added functionality

2011-02-24 Thread Jeffrey E Burgoyne
Sorry, should have read it closer, change my example to : Location /cgi-bin ProxyPass http://otherserver.com/cgi-bin /Location So I just went with that style. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Jeffrey E Burgoyne burgo...@keenuh.com wrote: I am doing some work with a large

Re: ProxyPreserveHost - added functionality

2011-02-24 Thread Jeffrey E Burgoyne
I agree I like that better. Implementation looks more in-depth than the work I've done before, I'll have a look at it sometime if no one else wishes to take it up. Well, that style would be to have an option to ProxyPass that flips the worker's preserve host attribute, eg: ProxyPass

ProxyPreserveHost - added functionality

2011-02-23 Thread Jeffrey E Burgoyne
I am doing some work with a large organization that has recently acquired two products that work properly through a reverse proxy system only when ProxyPreserveHost is set to on. The organization had issue as they are mandated to have only a single hostname as a point of entry for their web

Re: ProxyPreserveHost - added functionality

2011-02-23 Thread Jeffrey E Burgoyne
Quite small, only took a few hours to do. I'll post it tomorrow. Basically it does the same as PreserveProxyHost except it works on a URL basis, not on a per virtual host basis. On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:12:44 -0500 Jeffrey E Burgoyne burgo...@keenuh.com wrote: If people feel

Re: Fast by default

2010-06-02 Thread Jeffrey E Burgoyne
4 - 1 compression ratio is fine unless you are serving lots of rich content, which generally will see no performance gain if not reduced performance. As pointed out this option is not a one size fits all arrangement. Shouldn't the default be the best config for everyone based upon the lowest

Re: Feature Request for balancer-manager

2009-10-21 Thread Jeffrey E Burgoyne
I am not using the apache balancing, but using a network level load balancer, but this concept may apply. We append an HTTP header on output that tells you which machine you were on. As long as each machine has a separate config file of some sort (in our setup it is http.conf unique per machine,