On mån, 2008-10-20 at 11:21 +0100, Simon Waters wrote: > Apache will do this as a reverse proxy, but Apache as a reverse proxy is > interesting - most places I've seen it done it is sitting on the webserver on > port 80 forwarding to less capable webservers on another port. Although > Apache can do quite a lot as a reverse proxy the first person I saw who tried > to set it up created an open proxy - so be careful. Also mod_deflate still works very sub-otimal when it comes to HTTP & caching. Currently cache validations is a bit broken, after it was fixed to at least minimally comply with HTTP specifications. There is an open task in the Apache project for supporting mod_deflate and similar filters that conditionally modify the response entity and thereby creating new variants of the requested resource. HTTP isn't really designed for this and getting it right requires some care.. (ETag needs to be remapped, in a way that If-* conditional requests still to the right thing). Regards Henrik
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