On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Peter Belau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be a silly question but how would I go about giving mod_proxy some > knowledge about another module which it should call if the module is > installed ? Obviously, I understand how I could hack mod_proxy itself in > order to tweak the selection but I do not understand how mod_proxy could: > > 1. Check for the presence of a module > 2. Given that the module is present, somehow ask the module to return the > correct proxy. > > Again, this all makes sense when I think of it in terms of a shared > libraries but not so much as Apache Modules. Am I missing something basic ?
Look at the provider mechanism used by the mod_proxy and mod_proxy_balancer to select a load balancing algorithm. (grep provider modules/proxy/*.[ch] Then it's just a matter of changing ProxyRemote to implement the default provider, adding a little string config option to choose a non-default provider if you want it, and implementing the the new provider. It would have a fair chance of being integrated into upstream Apache to allow other modules to extend the selection algorithm. -- Eric Covener [EMAIL PROTECTED]
