On 6/8/05, dhay@xxxxxxxxxxx <dhay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We'd like to implement something that knows how to handle a custom > communication protocol, and allows us to pass requests down to Tomcats (or > a JKHandler implementation). > > Currently we have a class on the Apache machine which listens on a port, > opens a socket for the device, wraps each request as an http request, and > sends it to Apache for load balancing between the Tomcat servers. Is there > a way to integrate this directly into Apache and increase performance etc.? Apache 2 has some multi-protocol support. Modules exist for pop3, ftp, and echo. You may want to look at those and see if they give you ideas. Again, this is a request that may get better answers on the module developers list: http://modules.apache.org/subscribe Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx