Hi, Here's a problem I'd like to solve. Configure apache to receive a request and proxy/forward it off to a backend app server (tomcat) .. wait a specified period of time .. and no response is received send back a static file or a return code like 204.
Essentially it's a combination between the below mod_rewrite and mod_alias directives with a timeout. Below example uses solr without loss of generality. RedirectMatch 204 /search/(.*)$ RewriteRule ^/search/(.*)$ http://backend:8080/solr/$1 [P] Logic below: If url matches rewrite-rule regex then { set timer for 500ms with timer_callback() force proxy to secondary url after rewriting it if(response from proxy is > 199 and < 300) return response else return 204 } timer_callback() { send back 204 } Instead of returning 204 one could also serve back a static file. The general idea is to expose a url that has a near-guaranteed response time limit where a 204 or static default is acceptable behaviour. I suspect that we'll need to write an apache module to do this.. yet surely this question has been asked before? Ideas? Thanks - Neal --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
