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.
---- a slow client - that makes sense...I didn't consider that. Does anyone still use dial-up anymore?
;-)
Craig