On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de> wrote: > On 31.08.2010 15:44, Jeff Trawick wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:40 AM, "Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group" > <ruediger.pl...@vodafone.com <mailto: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?). > > So that could result in "close this backend connection" not "put into error > state" as a reaction, right? > > Yes (I forgot or didn't know the distinction between closing a particular > connection and marking the worker in error) > > At present we don't mark particular connections for close just based on the > status code without marking the worker in error, right? > > Anyway, my question should have been > > "Should we close backend connections if we get 400?" >
For now, yeah. Likely safer.