On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 12:00 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 10:33, Michael Metz wrote:
>
> I don't know anything about this particular project but there
> are several reasons to use a reverse-proxy front end. One is
> to hide the fact that you need different program instances
> perhaps running under different uids or with conflicting
> options to serve different parts of a site. Another would
> be to allow caching of parts of the output generated by
> the real server. Also, if you have clients connecting over
> a slow link, using a lightweight proxy can release the
> memory-intense server connection quickly while dribbling
> the results back to the client.
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a slow client - that makes sense...I didn't consider that. Does anyone
still use dial-up anymore?
;-)
Craig
