On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Peter Bi wrote: > The linked page is great, especially the first picture. > > Problem in authentication: if mod_perl returns cached header and > the document is proxy cached in the plain Apache, the backend > authentication handler (in the mod_perl server) will not be able > to protect it.
Obviously you need to serve the pages from whatever stage that can handle authorization. However, even if it means you can't cache things in the proxy, you will still get great benefits from having the light proxy process waiting for the client to receive the data and serving static image files and such instead of having the expensive mod_perl process doing it. > > Raw benchmark numbers will come out a bit lower, but you don't care > > as a proper setup will save you LOTS of memory, database connections > > and what have you not. > > > > http://develooper.com/modperl/performance_tuning.html > > > > (Click "Next" on the top of each slide to progress ... The first few > > slides looks weird in Mozilla 1.0 on my Linux box but are fine in > > Chimera on Mac OS X - get a Mac! :-) ) -- ask bjoern hansen, http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; do();
