> Alon Salant wrote:
> > I've been thinking about trying to write a HTTP proxy server using the
> > servlet architecture. I am polling for thoughts/comments here.
> >
> > Basically, if you can have a server listening on a socket for
> > HTTP requests, it could use the servlet framework to inspect the
> > incoming request, forward it on, handle the results and then
> > respond to the client.
> >
> > Sound plausible? Any ideas on how to set up this basic framework?
From: James Todd
> for my previous gig i was just about ready to write one
> of these puppies myself. my specific goal was to build
> an intelligent load balancer which would fan the initial
> request out to the best suited next tier server and simply
> pass the unmodified results with the exception of a
> session id swap back to the client.
>
> i'm sure there is more work that could be done in this
> layer as well in addition to load balancing and proxy
> services.
It looks like Jetty can be setup as a proxy, but I have not used this.
http://www.mortbay.com
It also looks like Jetty3 may end up as the Java HTTP server for Jakarta, so
this might be the best place to contribute, if you are so inclined.
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