lighty's life: mod_proxy_core commited to svn

mod_proxy_core commited to svn

jan — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:06:00 +0200

mod_proxy_core just got commited to SVN and is now available to testers.

server.modules = ( ..., "mod_proxy_core", .. )

## works
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/proxyme/" {
  proxy-core.balancer = "round-robin" 
  proxy-core.protocol = "http" 
  proxy-core.backends = ( "wikipedia.org" )

  ## to be done
  proxy-core.rewrite-response = (
    "Location" => ( 
      "^http://en.wikipedia.org/(.*)" => "http://127.0.0.1:1025/$1" ) )
  proxy-core.rewrite-request = (
    "URI" => (
      "^/proxyme(/.*)" => "$1" ) )
}

The above config forwards everything from /proxyme/ to wikipeedia.org. It resolves the domain wikipedia.org and is using one of the address to forward the request. As you already see there will be a request and response header rewriter for rewriting Location headers and URIs.

What works ?

Round-Robin Load-Balancing
Failover of a backend is down
HTTP proxying
HTTP/1.1
Keep-Alive

What is missing

FastCGI, SCGI and CGI backends
Header Rewriting

Show me the source, Luke

In the source-browsers you can also take a look at the code to see what is going on in there.

"mod_proxy_core commited to svn" by jake

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:49:24 +0200

so does this mean I dont have to figure out a way to load balance with Apache?? If so, a big freaking thank you to the lighttpd staff :) --jake

"mod_proxy_core commited to svn" by Joe

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:54:22 +0200

Kudos Jan.

"mod_proxy_core commited to svn" by Markus Peter

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:30:26 +0200

If the proxy module reads the HTTP expires header and has an own cache of configurable size, Rails and similar systems would only need to send proper expiry headers instead of the static file hack.

"mod_proxy_core commited to svn" by Ezra Zygmuntowicz

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:17:03 +0200

Very cool Jan! Thanks for your hard work on Lighty. I will be testiong this right away.

"mod_proxy_core commited to svn" by Ross

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:34:51 +0200

Will there be a way to send-to-proxy-unless-a-static-file-exists (think: rails page caching), or will we still need to lean on mod_cml?