On Aug 12, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Eddie <[email protected]> wrote: > HI, > > In following link, > http://trafficserver.apache.org/docs/trunk/admin/reverse-proxy-http-redirects/index.en.html > I saw this statement and curious how to configure it and what it is used for? > > Traffic Server opens an HTTP connection to the origin server. (This step is > optional) > > Could someone please explain a little bit? > > Thanks > > Eddie >
A guess would be that they meant for 3) to be optional if 4) kicks in (serving out of cache). It will not create (or acquire from session pool) a connection to the origin if the request can be satisfied entirely out of cache. -- Leif
