advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy

[prev] [thread] [next] [Date index for 2005/04/20]

From: allan juul
Subject: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Date: 19:18 on 20 Apr 2005
hi

i need advice before i waste too much time on the bleeding obvious.

we have a setup where we will reverse proxy content both to our own 
backend-servers (which run on IIS) and other external servers which 
content we dont control. one of the reasons we proxy is because of 
speed/performance

we have an Apache 2.054 up front on port 80 and the backend is on the 
same machine which is running windows 2004


we need to fix broken img src, and absolute links and that sort of thing 
coming from the external servers

i have fiddled with mod_proxy_html to rewrite stuff and that works ok, 
but have some features that doesn't mix well with our solution (content 
-type is encoded utf-8, where we proxy to iso-8859-1 for instance. or 
some html tags are stripped etc.) also caching becomes slower because of 
this output filter it seems (i guess because of unknown content-length)

it seems way overkill to have a mod_perl enabled frontend, but i'm 
pretty confident we could write a mod_perl filter to do the content 
rewrites we need.

so, is a mod_perl-enabled Apache acting as a proxy just a sick idea. it 
will proxy content and the filter will have to scan all response content

hope someone can wipe this down right away ;)

./allan

(message missing)

advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
allan juul 19:18 on 20 Apr 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Stas Bekman 20:24 on 20 Apr 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
allan juul 20:53 on 20 Apr 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Stas Bekman 22:08 on 20 Apr 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
allan juul 20:22 on 30 Apr 2005

compile mod_perl with Apache::DBI support
jiesheng zhang 05:07 on 02 May 2005

Re: compile mod_perl with Apache::DBI support
Stas Bekman 06:43 on 02 May 2005

Re: compile mod_perl with Apache::DBI support
jiesheng zhang 12:10 on 02 May 2005

Re: compile mod_perl with Apache::DBI support
Perrin Harkins 14:48 on 02 May 2005

Re: compile mod_perl with Apache::DBI support
jiesheng zhang 16:21 on 02 May 2005

Re: compile mod_perl with Apache::DBI support
Perrin Harkins 16:22 on 02 May 2005

Re: compile mod_perl with Apache::DBI support
jiesheng zhang 16:46 on 02 May 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Stas Bekman 06:48 on 02 May 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Devin Murphy 20:25 on 20 Apr 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Dominique Quatravaux 08:38 on 21 Apr 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Alex Greg 09:08 on 21 Apr 2005

Re: compile mod_perl with Apache::DBI support
Michael Peters 17:02 on 02 May 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
allan juul 18:42 on 03 May 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Jeff Ambrosino 20:12 on 03 May 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Stas Bekman 22:40 on 03 May 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Stas Bekman 01:56 on 10 May 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Stas Bekman 16:43 on 10 May 2005

Re: advice needed: mod_perl reverse proxy
Stas Bekman 01:59 on 10 May 2005

Generated at 06:56 on 17 May 2005 by mariachi v0.52