Hi, there is a general confusion about what a forward proxy is and what a > reverse proxy is and whether there is any difference between the two. > For example there is this article: > > As far as Nginx is concerned, it works on a HTTP 1.1 to a browser and HTTP 1.0 to backend servers. Since HTTP 1.0 doesn't implement "keep alive", every request object is destroyed after use. Hence, ideally its not suitable to be used as a forward proxy where connection pooling is important [1]. On a side note we have been using Nginx as a reverse proxy for the last 2 years. It handles peak loads of 1200+ reqs/sec easily. There is nothing comparable to it as a webserver and a reverse proxy(with load balancing).
Anwyays, thanks for all the responses I'm gonna give a shot at Apache's traffic server (claimed to handle tens of thousands of connections and also widely used in yahoo's infrastructure) [2] Regards Harish [1] http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule [2] http://trafficserver.apache.org/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
