[Pound Mailing List] Sessions and disabled backends, (was: Source ip-Hashing method in load balancing)

2010-01-28 Thread Clinton Gormley
> For example: > - What happens, when one server is overloaded and the balancer removes > it from the pool? Or the server dies? Or you have to take it down for > maintenance? Speaking of which... While using an earlier version of pound (2.4.2, I think), I initially used sessions to send the us

Re: [Pound Mailing List] Source ip-Hashing method in load balancing.

2010-01-28 Thread Michal Táborský - MALL.cz
Hello Raj, I think your question got answered already, but I wanted to give you some extra advice. If you are running your application in a multi-server environment and the app requires that all requests in a single session come to the same server, you are asking for trouble. For example: -

Re: [Pound Mailing List] patch for telling users about https

2010-01-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Jan 28, 2010, at 14:38 , Peter van Dijk wrote: > Hello, > > when used on ports other than 80 or 443, users may have a hard time > remembering whether a website/service > expects HTTP or HTTPS. Recent apache mod_ssl versions give users attempting > to talk > HTTP to a HTTPS port an informativ

[Pound Mailing List] patch for telling users about https

2010-01-28 Thread Peter van Dijk
Hello, when used on ports other than 80 or 443, users may have a hard time remembering whether a website/service expects HTTP or HTTPS. Recent apache mod_ssl versions give users attempting to talk HTTP to a HTTPS port an informative error. http://hg.openpanel.com/pound-sslpatched/rev/90a2b1ae6b

Re: [Pound Mailing List] Info on source ip hashing mechanism

2010-01-28 Thread Dave Steinberg
Raj Ganguly wrote: Hi All, I am sorry to resend it again as it was not present in the acrhive.Presume it didn't went to correct distro earlier. I am attaching the configuration below and somewhat it looks to be working.But not clear as how the backend's are selected.I am having to ipaddress endi

[Pound Mailing List] Info on source ip hashing mechanism

2010-01-28 Thread Raj Ganguly
Hi All, I am sorry to resend it again as it was not present in the acrhive.Presume it didn't went to correct distro earlier. I am attaching the configuration below and somewhat it looks to be working.But not clear as how the backend's are selected.I am having to ipaddress ending with even and odd