[users@httpd] Re: Proxying GET and POST requests

[Joost de Heer <sa...@xs4all.nl>]

wi wrote:
> Hi all
>
> We have a need (driven by some load/caching issues) to split our incoming
> traffic so that GET requests go to one set of servers and POST requests go
> to another part of the farm. Unfortunately, there's no simple URI based
> way
> of identifying which is which, so I'm wondering whether there is some way
> to
> do this that I've missed.
>
> I imagine it would be possible to come up with a mod_perl solution to
> this,
> but if there's some sort of simple "Pure Apache" way, I'd like to try that
> first.

mod_rewrite can do this, something like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteRule /(.*) http://posthost.my.domain/$1 [P,L]
RewriteRule /(.*) http://gethost.my.domain/$1 [P]

Joost


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