Re: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module

2010-04-23 Thread alin vasile
I don't know. You can try it. if not, third-party libraries should help From: Some Guy To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org Sent: Fri, April 23, 2010 12:10:47 AM Subject: Re: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module Wow that looks pretty straightfo

Re: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module

2010-04-22 Thread Nick Kew
On 22 Apr 2010, at 15:14, Some Guy wrote: > I don't really need keepalive. Just a really basic http request. However, > this would be in a non request handler thread, so I'll have no initial > request_rec to create a subrequest from. It would also be in the parent > process via a monitor hook.

Re: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module

2010-04-22 Thread alin vasile
check the thread "Doing a subrequest with ap_run_sub_req" in the same list From: Some Guy To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org Sent: Thu, April 22, 2010 5:14:07 PM Subject: Re: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module I don't really need k

Re: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module

2010-04-22 Thread Some Guy
I don't really need keepalive. Just a really basic http request. However, this would be in a non request handler thread, so I'll have no initial request_rec to create a subrequest from. It would also be in the parent process via a monitor hook. I see the mod_proxy create_worker and initialize_w

Re: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module

2010-04-22 Thread Nick Kew
On 22 Apr 2010, at 08:25, Sorin Manolache wrote: > As Nick says, the common solution are subrequests. However, note that > subrequests are not kept alive. Backend connections may be kept alive or closed, as detailed in the mod_proxy docs! If you want to implement keepalive without mod_proxy, th

Re: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module

2010-04-22 Thread Sorin Manolache
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 22:51, Nick Kew wrote: > > On 21 Apr 2010, at 20:42, Some Guy wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Is there any facility in the Apache libs that allows module developers to >> act as a client? > > The usual way would be to harness mod_proxy, commonly in a subrequest. > You don't have

Re: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module

2010-04-22 Thread Saju Pillai
Some Guy wrote: Hi all, Is there any facility in the Apache libs that allows module developers to act as a client? If not, I'll just use something like curl (or raw sockets), but wanted to know if there was an Apache way to do this. You'll have to co-opt a http client library or roll your ow

Re: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module

2010-04-21 Thread alin vasile
do you want to make an http request from a module? From: Some Guy To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org Sent: Wed, April 21, 2010 10:42:50 PM Subject: Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module Hi all, Is there any facility in the Apache libs that allows

Issuing a client side HTTP request from a module

2010-04-21 Thread Some Guy
Hi all, Is there any facility in the Apache libs that allows module developers to act as a client? If not, I'll just use something like curl (or raw sockets), but wanted to know if there was an Apache way to do this. Thanks, SB