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2007-08-01 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
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Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread Erik Abele
On 01.08.2007, at 21:32, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Aug 1, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Ruediger Pluem wrote: ... Thats fine, but please keep the term reverse-proxy in parallel for the reasons stated by others here. It may be a silly and incorrect term, but in contrast to gateway in this context it is

Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread Mladen Turk
Roy T. Fielding wrote: Actually, very few people know what it means, which is why we end up with so many poorly designed extensions to mod_proxy that really should be in a separate module called mod_gateway. They have nothing to do with each other aside from the poor choice Netscape made in mar

Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Aug 1, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Ruediger Pluem wrote: On 08/01/2007 05:39 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: What would folks say to renaming all occurances of "reverse proxy" to say "gateway" in our documentation? At the minimum, I plan to notate "reverse-proxy (e.g. gateway server)" liberal

Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 08/01/2007 05:39 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: What would folks say to renaming all occurances of "reverse proxy" to say "gateway" in our documentation? > > > At the minimum, I plan to notate "reverse-proxy (e.g. gateway server)" > liberally throughout the explanation pages of t

Re: [Fwd: docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy]

2007-08-01 Thread jean-frederic clere
Joshua Slive wrote: > On 8/1/07, jean-frederic clere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Any comments before I commit that? > > I'm not sure I see the point. > > The example is just reiterating the default configuration. But, as > Vincent mentions, that is needed in some cases and is useful for > showi

Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread Joshua Slive
On 8/1/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the minimum, I plan to notate "reverse-proxy (e.g. gateway server)" > liberally throughout the explanation pages of the module and guides. Definite +1 on that. Joshua. ---

Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread André Malo
* William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >>> What would folks say to renaming all occurances of "reverse proxy" > >>> to say "gateway" in our documentation? > > jean-frederic clere wrote: > > I am not sure that is a good idea see > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy > > read and contrast to > >

Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
>>> What would folks say to renaming all occurances of "reverse proxy" >>> to say "gateway" in our documentation? jean-frederic clere wrote: > I am not sure that is a good idea see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy read and contrast to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_%28telecommu

Re: [Fwd: docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy]

2007-08-01 Thread Joshua Slive
On 8/1/07, jean-frederic clere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any comments before I commit that? I'm not sure I see the point. The example is just reiterating the default configuration. But, as Vincent mentions, that is needed in some cases and is useful for showing the influences reverse proxies.

Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread Erik Abele
On 01.08.2007, at 13:50, Lars Eilebrecht wrote: Hi, What would folks say to renaming all occurances of "reverse proxy" to say "gateway" in our documentation? -1 "Reverse Proxy" is a commonly used term, and I don't see a reason why we should use something else. Yep, agreed - please keep it

Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread Lars Eilebrecht
Hi, > What would folks say to renaming all occurances of "reverse proxy" > to say "gateway" in our documentation? -1 "Reverse Proxy" is a commonly used term, and I don't see a reason why we should use something else. ciao... -- Lars Eilebrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread Mads Toftum
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:08:32PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > What would folks say to renaming all occurances of "reverse proxy" > to say "gateway" in our documentation? > > We could leave one occurrence of "gateway (e.g. reverse-proxy as it was > previously documented)" per document, fo

Re: [Fwd: docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy]

2007-08-01 Thread Vincent Bray
On 01/08/07, jean-frederic clere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any comments before I commit that? > It's rather common to see people (especially debian and ubuntu users) who're getting 401 with ProxyPass because their (idiotic) distro config includes the inverse of this (Deny from all in Proxy *).

[Fwd: docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy]

2007-08-01 Thread jean-frederic clere
Any comments before I commit that? Cheers Jean-Frederic --- Begin Message --- Hi, What about removing the +++ Order deny,allow Allow from all +++ In the proxy reserve example? Cheers Jean-Frederic Index: docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml =

Re: Ban the phrase "reverse-proxy"?

2007-08-01 Thread jean-frederic clere
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > What would folks say to renaming all occurances of "reverse proxy" > to say "gateway" in our documentation? > > We could leave one occurrence of "gateway (e.g. reverse-proxy as it was > previously documented)" per document, for clarification. I am not sure that is a