Hello monks,

I've being studying mod_perl in the past to implement a project that uses Apache as a reverse proxy, receives a SOAP request, modifies the payload (XML), handles it to the real web application, and returns back the response to the requester.

What is the best practice in this case? I checked out Apache::ReverseProxy, but it defines a full handler and I'm guessing that using a Input or Output filter handler would be a better option (based on my readings of mod_perl2 User Guide book) combined with the standard Apache modules proxy and proxy_http to avoid reinventing the wheel.

PS: I know mod_perl2 is not the "sexiest" framework at the moment, but I want to take advantage of already having it available on particular web servers by default.

Thanks!

Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior
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In reply to mod_perl best practices to increment XML payload by glasswalk3r

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