> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Akins, Brian > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008 18:23 > An: dev@httpd.apache.org > Betreff: Re: ping for http in mod_proxy > > On 2/13/08 11:07 AM, "Jim Jagielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've started looking at adding "ping" support for > > mod_proxy_http to complement whats in mod_proxy_ajp... > > The idea is to send a simple OPTIONS * to the backend > > and hope for a reply. > > > Would it be more useful to have active healthchecking to > backend servers?
This does not help with race conditions on HTTP keepalive connections. Nevertheless active healthchecking could be useful. But on a busy site I guess a real request will notice before the healthcheck that one backend is down or the frequence of health checks needs to be insane. Regards Rüdiger
