Re: reverse mode, http1.1 support

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, mohan kanumuru wrote:

> I am testing a proxy server in reverse mode, and
> trying to understand if i can use webaxe-1.pg workload
> to simulate a scenario where a single proxy with one
> IP address can serve multiple origin servers.
> Basically I am trying to know whether Polyclt and
> polysrv can generate object requests based on http1.1
> syntax so that the proxy can distinguish the requests
> to different URLs even though they are coming on same
> IP address.

Polyclt emits HTTP/1.0 requests with many HTTP/1.1 features. I beleave
that you need Host: header to be included in every request for your
configuration to work. Polyclt always includes Host: header.

For more information about WebAxe and possible supported
configurations, please see

  http://polygraph.ircache.net/cgi-bin/mail2html.cgi?fnames=20001101/982
  http://polygraph.ircache.net/cgi-bin/mail2html.cgi?fnames=20001101/980
  http://polygraph.ircache.net/cgi-bin/mail2html.cgi?fnames=20001101/979
  http://polygraph.ircache.net/cgi-bin/mail2html.cgi?fnames=20000801/933
  http://polygraph.ircache.net/Workloads/WebAxe-1/

If the above is not sufficient, please ask more questions.

> I also want to seek some suggestions on creating a
> workload file, that enables a polyclt to generate
> object requests to different source servers but
> proxies to one IP address.

PolyMix-2,3 and WebAxe-1 are the examples of such a workload (if used
with a --proxy option).

A Robot sends requests to origin servers (see "origins" field in Robot
configuration). A robot will send the corresponding requests to a
proxy if the proxy is specified using the --proxy command line option.  
Again, all Robot requests have correct Host header.
	http://polygraph.ircache.net/doc/pgl/types.html#Pgl:Robot

HTH,

Alex.