[jetty-discuss] Jetty6 proxy handler

[Silvio B. <sbi...@ja...>]

Hello all,

I read some messages about the upcoming Jetty proxyhandler.

Is this a handler that will enable me to write a reverse proxy? I am using 
Pound as a HTTP load-balancer at this point but I need something where I 
have more detailed control over which backend receives what.

In particular I need a reverse proxy that selects a beackend based on:

-the HTTP URL (URI?)

-the HTTP Host header

-the presence/absence of a HTTP session cookie

The latter is the most tricky: I need sessions to stick to the backend and I 
need to be able to "soft-turn-off" a backend so it will continue serving 
existing sessions but will not be selected for new sessions. This is 
something Pound can not do.

Is this anywhere near what the upcoming ProxyHandler is targeted at? If not 
I may need to start for a Pound replacement but I would prefer to have 
complete control over the proxy logic.

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Silvio Bierman