If somebody can try and answer my questions posted below would really help me. I have been reading about other ways of re-directing the traffic and I found mod_perl module could also help in doing that. Since I have not done this before advise beforehand would make things clear.
On 7/9/08, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We have a web server that redirects traffic to app server using mod_jk load > balancer. > > Now I need to do the following: > > 1. If request comes from URL /AB and content of URL /AB has content in > certain format then forward it to mod_jk otherwise forward it to some other > URL (external system in our case). > 2. Make sure that when apache forwards the requests to external URL, > session from client is still active. > > My obvious questions are: > 1. Can I do the above using rewrite rules? > 2. Can I use perl in rewrite rules to parse through the content and somehow > tell apache to re-direct the request? What's the best way to do that? In > terms of performance, efficiency etc. > 3. If rewrite forwards the request then does it still maintains the session > from client -> WebServer -> External system? > > I need your advise. > >