Thanks Igor. I have provided comments inline. On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Igor Cicimov <icici...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Anil J <anilj.mail...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Jim, >> >> Note that Proxy will also be communicating with Origin Server (OS) where >> the content is going to come from. At AS, I am just expecting to process >> the content received from OS. So in this context, I am looking at this AS >> as an extension of Proxy server. >> > > Mind to explain what exactly this Origin Server is? Another apache or > something else? On the same box with the proxy or a different one? What > kind of application are we talking about here? > Origin server is my content server, some web site (e.g. www.youtube.com). All three servers I am talking about Proxy, OS and AS are physically different servers. Proxy and AS are co-located The application in the context is say content filtering or content adaptation. The AS I am taking about is that server. > > >> >> On other words, theoretically I can implement a module and put all the >> logic in the AS, but I can't do that. So I offloading the task to AS. So I >> need this module in between which will talk to the AS (HTTP Servlet on the >> Tomcat). >> >> Once the message is processed by AS, I can then send it either to OS or >> to Client depending on the type of message. I am not sure how does >> mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http works in this scenario. >> > > What do you mean by message? Is it a http client request or something > else? Maybe explaining in details what are you trying to build will make it > possible for someone to give you more specific help. > Message is HTTP Request and Response messages. Typically, when I receive response from www.youtube.com containing a video, I want to transcode it to suite the requirements of client (e.g. mobile device) so that it can play it. Now in this set up, I want to intercept the HTTP response, and send the content in the response message (e.g. video) to the AS for transcoding. After the video is transcoded, I will put it back to the Response message that is held at Proxy, and send it back to Client. So I am tryig to understand, what interface I should be using between Proxy server and AS. Is there any module which I can use or do I have to write my own module to build the above behavior in Proxy. Hope this is more clear. > >> >> I am new to the Apache HTTP architecture. So having all the basic doubts. >> > > > > >
