File upload gateway (was Re: Forking off lengthy processes)

2000-07-10 Thread Jeremy Howard
I said: The other place I'd like to avoid holding up my mod_perl processes is in waiting for file uploads to finish (which is a common situation as people upload attachments for their emails). Is there a any way to do this... perhaps by using some kind of 'gateway' server? Barrie

Re: File upload gateway (was Re: Forking off lengthy processes)

2000-07-10 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
I said: The most often wished-for approach is for a http cache to accept the whole request before passing it through to the main httpd, but I'm not aware of any that do that. Jeremy Howard wrote: How do proxy servers like Squid work? Squid, Apache in cache mode, et al, was what I