On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote: > On 05 Jun 2013, at 3:00 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've been playing with this in my sandbox, it adds a "socket readable" >> callback to event, similar to the timed callback, which allows >> mod_proxy_wstunnel to hop on and off the thread like test/mod_dialup. >> >> http://people.apache.org/~covener/websocket-asynch-8.diff > > I was meaning to play around with a similar idea, but you beat me to it. > > What I had in mind was an API that passed conn_rec structures rather than raw > sockets, which could then be processed using the same lifecycle that a server > generated conn_rec's pass through (ap_run_process_connection()).
> Proxy could then pass the conn_rec it uses towards the backend to the core, > and then obtain event driven events for ready-to-read and ready-to-write from > the frontend and the backend, independently of one another. conn_rec is easy for the proxies, but could limit how other mods can take advantage of the service
