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Re: [users@httpd] Using rewrite to forward the request

Bradley Giesbrecht

2008-07-09

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Holy cow.

Did I do that. I did!

I hit reply with the wrong email select. How embarassing.

//Brad

On Jul 9, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> Actually this is a good use of Chrome.
>
> Chrome has stock images. Well at least one.
>
> //brad
>
> On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Mohit Anchlia wrote:
>
>> We have a web server that redirects traffic to app server using
>> mod_jk load balancer.
>>
>> Now I need to do the following:
>>
>> 1. If request comes from URL /AB and content of URL /AB has content
>> in certain format then forward it to mod_jk otherwise forward it to
>> some other URL (external system in our case).
>> 2. Make sure that when apache forwards the requests to external
>> URL, session from client is still active.
>>
>> My obvious questions are:
>> 1. Can I do the above using rewrite rules?
>> 2. Can I use perl in rewrite rules to parse through the content and
>> somehow tell apache to re-direct the request? What's the best way
>> to do that? In terms of performance, efficiency etc.
>> 3. If rewrite forwards the request then does it still maintains the
>> session from client -> WebServer -> External system?
>>
>> I need your advise.
>>
>
>
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