[users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer - no way to name pool members by IP.

2011-02-03 Thread dfw-apache
I've hit a vexing impasse with mod_proxy_balancer. I have a pool of backend boxes. They vhost many domains, so need the specific Host: header in requests to them (the *same* Host: header for all of them) I proxy reqeusts to them potentially thousands of times a second, and their IP's are not g

Re: [users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer - no way to name pool members by IP.

2011-02-03 Thread Igor Galić
- dfw-apa...@white.u-net.com wrote: > I've hit a vexing impasse with mod_proxy_balancer. > > I have a pool of backend boxes. They vhost many domains, so > need the specific Host: header in requests to them (the *same* > Host: header for all of them) > > I proxy reqeusts to them potentially

Re: [users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer - no way to name pool members by IP.

2011-02-04 Thread dfw-apache
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:00:25PM +, Igor Gali?? wrote: > - dfw-apa...@white.u-net.com wrote: > > I've hit a vexing impasse with mod_proxy_balancer. > > > > I have a pool of backend boxes. They vhost many domains, so > > need the specific Host: header in requests to them (the *same* > > H

Re: [users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer - no way to name pool members by IP.

2011-02-04 Thread Igor Galić
- dfw-apa...@white.u-net.com wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:00:25PM +, Igor Gali?? wrote: > > - dfw-apa...@white.u-net.com wrote: > > > I've hit a vexing impasse with mod_proxy_balancer. > > > > > > I have a pool of backend boxes. They vhost many domains, so > > > need the speci

Re: [users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer - no way to name pool members by IP.

2011-02-04 Thread Igor Galić
> > > But ProxySet only allows you to set the same Variables as > > > ProxyPass does. host is none of them. > > > > Indeed. This appears to be the problem. Such an option is missing. > > Right now I'm looking into 2.2's source to see how to add an option > preservehost=(on|off). > > Can you ple

Re: [users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer - no way to name pool members by IP.

2011-02-04 Thread dfw-apache
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 05:36:01PM +, Igor Gali?? wrote: > > > > > But ProxySet only allows you to set the same Variables as > > > > ProxyPass does. host is none of them. > > > > > > Indeed. This appears to be the problem. Such an option is missing. > > > > Right now I'm looking into 2.2's s

Re: [users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer - no way to name pool members by IP.

2011-04-20 Thread dfw-apache
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 11:06:48PM +, dfw-apa...@white.u-net.com wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 05:36:01PM +, Igor Gali?? wrote: > > > > > > > But ProxySet only allows you to set the same Variables as > > > > > ProxyPass does. host is none of them. > > > > > > > > Indeed. This appears t

Re: [users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer - no way to name pool members by IP.

2011-04-20 Thread dfw-apache
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 11:06:48PM +, dfw-apa...@white.u-net.com wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 05:36:01PM +, Igor Gali?? wrote: > > > > > > > But ProxySet only allows you to set the same Variables as > > > > > ProxyPass does. host is none of them. > > > > > > > > Indeed. This appears t

Re: [users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer - no way to name pool members by IP.

2011-04-20 Thread Eric Covener
> and I don't *think* anything looks at the Host header in the cached object, you could add a Vary on the Host header. - The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See http://httpd.apache.org/users

Re: [users@httpd] mod_proxy_balancer - no way to name pool members by IP.

2011-04-20 Thread dfw-apache
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 02:17:43PM -0400, Eric Covener wrote: > > and I don't *think* anything looks at the Host header in the cached object, > > you could add a Vary on the Host header. I'd rather not play with the Host header after all if I can help it. If it Vary's on Host, won't it check tha