You are right. It does do port checks. Too bad it cannot determine that the application server is unavailable based on the HTTP 502 the reverse proxy would return in that case, and take the server off the list... Did you actually verify that?
Truly, we abandoned using WebSphere and WebLogic plugins long time ago and have since been using hardware load balancers that basically offer the same functionality as the plugins but are a lot more flexible in the way they can be configured. The load balancers do not do port checks (except in the case of SSL). Instead they pull a static page from the HTTP server (Apache, IIS, J2EE or whatever). If you insert an additional reverse proxy in between, it will still detect whether the application backend is available or not based on whether the status page is served. -ascs -----Original Message----- From: Richard de Vries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:05 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reverse Proxy between WebSphere and the WebServer - prevent "Bad Gateway" errors. True, it does routing and does simple port-checks I think to make sure the backend application server is up. If that backend server is down, it routes the request to an app server that is up. In the proxy'd environment, this can happen: a) the backend app server crashes / goes down b) the plugin, not knowing it's actually hitting a reverse proxy, does a port check and says "Hey, the WAS instance is up, let me send this request to you". c) the proxy tries to pass the request on to the app, gets no response, and returns a "bad gateway" error message which in turn is presented back to the client. Without a proxy in the middle, this would happen: a) the backend app server crashes / goes down b) the plugin tries to talk to the app server, sees its down, and reroutes the request to a different app server. The client gets the right data back and would be none-the-wiser. So, how would I accomplish the latter with using the former? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
