On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Joseph Wayne Norton wrote: > At Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:57:46 +0300 (MSK), > Igor Sysoev wrote: > > > > I do not understand why do you want that the backend will serve > > response directly to the client ? If ithe client is slow then it will > > keep busy the backend. > > > > I can imagine that if the file is larger than some limit, it would > probably be more efficient to feed it directly to the client over the > network than having to feed it to apache (which will then most likely > buffer it and then feed it to the client). However, I haven't really > explored this in too much depth, so I don't have a good answer for > you.
I assume that backend is heavy and proxy (apache) is much lighter. Otherwise why do you need at all proxy in middle ? You can serve all requests by backend. Igor Sysoev
