Re: custom proxy setup with mod_perl

Fred Moyer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, André Warnier <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Fred Moyer wrote:
>>> You might want to take a look at a mod_perl based proxy module I wrote
>>> - https://metacpan.org/module/Apache2::Proxy
>>>
>>> It was used in conjunction with Perlbal and a couple other tricks, but
>>> was pretty speedy given the crude nature of how I implemented it.
>>
>> No offense intended, Fred, but without much of a documentation, this is bit
>> above my level.  I have trouble even understanding where it fits in.
> 
> None taken, you're quite right, this needs (more) documentation. It
> was open sourced when still in rough form. I'll send a ping when I get
> it cleaned up and 0.05 released. Anyway, here's the basic way I used
> it. Torsten's solution is probably technically more adept, but I
> couldn't do what I needed to using filtering, so I had to write this.
> 
> <Location />
>     SetHandler          modperl
>     PerlHeaderParserHandler Apache2::Const::OK
>     PerlAccessHandler       Apache2::Const::OK
>     PerlAuthenHandler       Apache2::Const::OK
>     PerlAuthzHandler        Apache2::Const::OK
>     PerlTypeHandler         Apache2::Const::OK
>     PerlFixupHandler        Apache2::Const::OK
>     PerlResponseHandler     My::Proxy->handler
> </Location>
> 
> package My::Proxy;
> use base 'Apache2::Proxy';
> 
> sub handler {
>     my ($r, $class) = @_;
> 
>     # examine request to see if it needs to be modified
> 
>     # if not, pass to Apache2::Proxy
>     return $class->SUPER::handler($r);
> 
>     # else fixup the request as needed.
> }
> 
Ok, get it, thanks.
All-in-one, as a substitute for mod_proxy.
I will have a second look now.