Re^2: Time to write a "serious" http server in Perl?

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Re^3: Time to write a "serious" http server in Perl? by jdrago_999 (Hermit) on Aug 11, 2008 at 06:06 UTC
Usually proxies handle outgoing requests from a network. A reverse proxy handles incoming requests to a network. In this context, a reverse proxy would read the request from a client, ask another Apache httpd instance for the data, then return that data to the client. This way, the mod_perl server can finish the request quickly and doesn't bog down a process (with a presumably large chunk of RAM) with downloading the response bytes to the client (on a slow connection).	[reply]

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