Re: [users@httpd] mod_proxy/mod_proxy_html

"Neil A. Hillard" <hillardn@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:50:39 +0100

William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:

Neil A. Hillard wrote:

On the ProxyPassReverse in Location bug - this was a show-stopper, end 

of story, for us.  If Nick hadn't fixed this (under consultancy) we'd 

have been looking at products other than Apache.

ROFL - I always love these posts.  Would have been looking at another
product with -no- source code, and the next time you were bit, would
have been between the rock and the proverbial hard spot :)

I'm glad it caused you amusement.  I was asked to post reasons why I 

thought that this should be in the main releases, in the hope that the 

patch would be accepted.

Apache isn't a product, it is a project, a perpetual work in progress.
Thus engineers like Nick or my employeer step in and solve the bugs,
and even <gasp> give back the solutions to the entire community :)

This I know.  We commissioned Nick to resolve the ProxyPassReverse bug 

and now he is attempting to get it accepted into the main code.  We have 

also had a Radius Auth module commissioned as mod_auth_rad was not 

suitable for us.  That is open source, too.  Which bit of this isn't 

giving back to the entire community?

At the of the day, we had a problem that needed resolving.  If Apache 

couldn't do it, something else would have, open source or not.

				Neil.

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Neil Hillard                    hillardn@xxxxxxxxx
Westland Helicopters Ltd.       http://www.whl.co.uk/

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