Re: implementing server affinity

2000-11-22 Thread David Hodgkinson
Chris Nokleberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, the front-end proxy servers don't have mod_perl, so the TransHandler would have to be written in C (?). Does anyone know of any existing code that does this sort of thing? Or simply well-written C TransHandlers that I could work off of? Is

Re: implementing server affinity

2000-11-22 Thread Chris Nokleberg
I thought about mod_rewrite but I would like this affinity module to handle the job of picking a random/round-robin backend server and setting the cookie itself. That way I don't have any session mgmt code in the backend server; I will just "know" that certain urls are guaranteed to bring the

implementing server affinity

2000-11-21 Thread Chris Nokleberg
Most of our pages are served by identical load-balanced boxes, and it doesn't matter which box serves what. However, a few special pages store a lot of per-user session data. Instead of burdening our db machine to store this data, I would like to use the filesystem. This requires that for these