Re: Apache Forward Proxy with App Server Integration.

[Anil J <anilj.mailing@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

After some more search, I found this reference to ICAP protocol, which exactly is the use case I am trying to solve. 

Please see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3507#section-3.2

In my case, I can not use ICAP client as the server I've to interact with does not support ICAP; it is HTTP based. 

So in this case, I was trying to understand how existing modules - mod_proxy & mod_proxy_http -  functions in this context. Will they serve my purpose if I have to use HTTP interface to connect with an external server. 

/anil.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Anil J <anilj.mailing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Jim,

I did listen to some of the videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNuuoQLw0tA) available on the net before writing to the list. However, I was not completely sure if it the solution to my problem. 

I have given some more elaboration to my problem on the list (its another email). Can you please check it one more time?

Thanks,

Anil.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Jim Jagielski <jim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There are a number of webinars and preso's on the reverse proxy capability
of Apache... I would suggest you review those to get a basic
understanding, at which point we'd be better able to answer
your questions.

On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:16 PM, Igor Cicimov <icicimov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Anil J <anilj.mailing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Jim,
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> Note that Proxy will also be communicating with Origin Server (OS) where the content is going to come from. At AS, I am just expecting to process the content received from OS. So in this context, I am looking at this AS as an extension of Proxy server.
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> Mind to explain what exactly this Origin Server is? Another apache or something else? On the same box with the proxy or a different one? What kind of application are we talking about here?
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> On other words, theoretically I can implement a module and put all the logic in the AS, but I can't do that. So I offloading the task to AS. So I need this module in between which will talk to the AS (HTTP Servlet on the Tomcat).
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> Once the message is processed by AS, I can then send it either to OS or to Client depending on the type of message. I am not sure  how does mod_proxy and mod_proxy_http works in this scenario.
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> What do you mean by message? Is it a http client request or something else? Maybe explaining in details what are you trying to build will make it possible for someone to give you more specific help.
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> I am new to the Apache HTTP architecture. So having all the basic doubts.
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