Re: Multiplexing proxy gateway requests to backend servers

Alex Rousskov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-proxy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Graham Leggett wrote:

> Ian Holsman wrote:
>
> > I was thinking of doing something like this for quite some time.
> > the only issues I can see are
> > keepalives..
> > 	* do they handle things like cookies per request or per
> > 	  connection?
>
> Servers don't handle cookies - they're just Yet Another Header.

Well, not so if you run your reverse proxy with caching enabled. Then
it becomes a Yet Another Header To Worry About :-).

Alex.

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