mod_proxy_core commited to svn

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