Hi all, As with mod_firehose and mod_policy, I have concluded negotiation with the BBC to open source some httpd modules that I wrote under the AL, and the BBC have very kindly agreed to donate the code to the ASF[1], which I believe would fit well as a subproject of httpd, and would like to know whether httpd would accept these.
To be clear, this isn't a "code dump", my intention is to continue to develop and support this moving forward, and hopefully expand the community around them. - mod_combine: "Response concatenation" As a page gets more complex, and eventually parts of the page like the header and footer become maintained by separate teams, the elements that make up a page can become fragmented. In the process, you can end up with a page that takes ages to load, because lots of fragments of javascript or fragments of CSS files are being downloaded separately by the browser. mod_combine is a handler that allows multiple URLs hosted by the server to be concatenated together and delivered as a single response, cutting down on the number of requests, and in turn the page loading time. At the same time, mod_combine attempts to behave sensibly when one or more of the files is missing, so as not to amplify a failure. The handler also properly supports conditional requests, creating a "super ETag", and then reversing it to apply conditional requests on each element being concatenated. The code is currently packaged as an RPM, wrapped in autotools, and a snapshot is available here: http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/bbc-donated/mod_combine/ The corresponding README documenting in more detail is here: http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/bbc-donated/mod_combine/README The code itself is here: http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/bbc-donated/mod_combine/mod_combine.c Obviously the expectation is for the documentation to be completed and fleshed out. [1] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52322 Regards, Graham --
