On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:40 AM, "Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group" <
ruediger.pl...@vodafone.com> wrote:

>  A 400 does not mean that the backend is not available.
>

agreed


> It just means that
> a bad request was sent.
>

I don't like that part ;)   Maybe mod_proxy mangled what got sent (sent too
much body on prior request?).


In addition to what is directly delivered from the backend
> the proxy code itself uses 500 and 503 to signal the balancer code that the
> error
> it faced (in case there was no response code from the backend for whatever
> reason)
> was recoverable (503) or not (500)
>
> Regards
>
> Rüdiger
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Jeff Trawick [mailto:traw...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Dienstag, 31. August 2010 15:26
> *To:* dev@httpd.apache.org
> *Subject:* errors that cause proxy to move worker to error state
>
> It looks like this is just 500 and 503.
>
> Why not 400, for example?
>
>         if (access_status == OK)
>             break;
>         else if (access_status == HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR) {
>             /* Unrecoverable server error.
>              * We can not failover to another worker.
>              * Mark the worker as unusable if member of load balancer
>              */
>             if (balancer) {
>                 worker->s->status |= PROXY_WORKER_IN_ERROR;
>                 worker->s->error_time = apr_time_now();
>             }
>             break;
>         }
>         else if (access_status == HTTP_SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE) {
>             /* Recoverable server error.
>              * We can failover to another worker
>              * Mark the worker as unusable if member of load balancer
>              */
>             if (balancer) {
>                 worker->s->status |= PROXY_WORKER_IN_ERROR;
>                 worker->s->error_time = apr_time_now();
>             }
>         }
>         else {
>             /* Unrecoverable error.
>              * Return the origin status code to the client.
>              */
>             break;
>         }
>
>


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