Re: frontend proxy really useful?

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi again,

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Chris Nokleberg wrote:

> On Sun, 21 May 2000, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> 
> > It might take a couple of minutes if the client is on a slow line.
>
> But the guide seems to be saying that the speed of the client isn't 
> an issue--the process (proxy _or_ mod_perl) is released as soon as it
> finishes putting the outputted page into the OS socket buffer. I assume
> "released" means it can go and serve another request. Am I reading it
> wrong?

No.

But what happens if the socket is still full of data from the previous
request when the child attached to that socket gets another request
for another socket-buffer-full?  That's when you run into the problem.

73,
Ged.