On Dec 6, 2005, at 12:45 PM, Brian Akins wrote:
That would work, I suppose, but wouldn't the client get the same impression "proxy is broken"? I generally only deal with "reverse proxies," so if origin is broken, whole site is broken...
Sorry, reverse proxy is not a proxy -- it is a gateway. You are right that it won't make a difference in the gateway case, though from a software design perspective, pipe-and-filter architectures depend on sending errors down the pipe so that each filter can handle the error. Having the filter set a global variable that is normally private to the client connection, just for the sake of obtaining the side-effect desired specifically for HTTP and mod_cache, is, well, unclean. ....Roy
