[mod_cluster-dev] Reuse of incoming AJP connections to send messages to workers

[jean-frederic clere]

On 05/10/2010 09:57 AM, Bela Ban wrote:
> It seems httpd attempts to establish TCP connections to registered 
> workers. This won't work if a worker has a private IP address, e.g. 
> 192.168.1.5.

You mean with a NAT somewhere between httpd and the cluster nodes?

> 
> Can't httpd reuse *incoming* TCP connections from workers to *send* 
> messages to them ? This would require httpd to keep incoming connections 
> from workers open.

Nah reusing can't work but the concept of a reverse connector, the logic
is already in AprEndpoint but that requires additional modifications in
the httpd proxy logic and protocol codes.

Cheers

Jean-Frederic