On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> According to Joshua Chamas:
>
> > I like the mod_proxy module in reverse httpd accel mode, but
> > am interested in having some nicer failure capabilities. I have
> > hacked in this kind of stuff before but was wondering if anyone
> > had any official patch for this kind of stuff.
> >
> > The nicety under consideration is having the mod_proxy module do
> > X retries every Y seconds instead of failing immediately. This
> > would allow a backend Apache httpd do a stop/start without any
> > downtime apparent to the client besides the connection breaks
> > from the stop. Depending on how much preloading is done at the
> > parent httpd, a start could take 5-10 seconds, and during this
> > time it would be cool if the proxy could just queue up requests.
> >
> > Anyone does this with some nice ProxyTimeout ProxyRetry config
> > options? Thanks.
>
> No, but I'd like to add to the wishlist that it should do
> load balancing and failover across multiple backends too.
> Mod_jserv appears to have a pretty good scheme of letting
> you describe the balanced sets and an interface to view
> and control the backend status. The only problem is that
> it is restricted to the jserv protocol for the backends.
Hmm, cool ideas folks. The problem is that you probably should ask for
this at the mod_proxy list if such a beast exists. Unless the authors of
the module are lurking around mod_perl list. Correct me if I'm wrong, I
like the idea and I like it to be implemented too :)
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