RE: PerlTransHandler question

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Well I could use mod_rewrite, the only reason I chose this method was
because it was easier to set up. Is there any difference between the
two?

Shawn


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Joyce [mailto:ian.joyce@xxxxx.xxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 8:31 PM
To: shawn
Subject: Re: PerlTransHandler question

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:19:29 -0700, shawn <shawn@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Hi, I have been having a few problems with dial-up users downloading
large
> pictures from my mod_perl enabled webserver, also I see spikes in cpu
usage
> which also suggests to me that the server is doing a lot of work
serving up
> the large images. What I would like to do is set up an image cluster,
to
> allow mod_perl to basically only execute code within the page, release
and
> let another server worry about serving up images. What I have done so
far is
> altered my PerlTransHandler with the code below 
> 
>   
> 
>             if($host ne 'dev.webserver.com' && $host ne
> 'images.webserver.com'){ 
> 
>                         if($new_uri =~
m/\.(jpg|gif|css|pdf|bmp|js|eps)$/i){
> 
>                                     #now redirect the image 
> 
>                                    
> $r->header_out(Location=>"http://images.webserver.com$new_uri";); 
> 
>                                     return REDIRECT; 
> 
>                         } 
> 
>             } 
> 
>   
> 
>   
> 
> So far this working on my development environment, but what I am
really
> wondering about is if this will actually take the load off mod_perl?
(it's a
> little hard for me to tell without significant traffic) Will the
mod_perl
> server execute the page and release the connection and not care how
long the
> images server is taking? If anyone has a better solution or an idea I
would
> love to hear it. 

Why not use mod_rewrite?

--Ian

> 
>   
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Shawn