[users@httpd] Web Socket support

[Jess Holle <je...@ptc.com>]

Are there any plans to add support for HTML 5 web sockets to Apache?

Specifically I'm interested in plans to add such support plus delegation 
of such requests to backend Java servlet engines, i.e. Tomcat, via 
mod_jk or some similar module.  [mod_proxy_ajp unfortunately does not 
load balance as well as mod_jk.]

The alternative would seem to be to take Apache out of the picture 
entirely -- replacing it with an IP load balancer and relying solely on 
Java servlet engines for all responses.  Today we use Apache primarily 
to handle authentication and load balance to Tomcat.  Yes, we also let 
it serve static content, but if it cannot handle and load balance 
emerging protocols, then we may no longer have a place for it -- as we 
certainly can do authentication in Tomcat.

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Jess Holle


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Re: [users@httpd] Web Socket support

[Nick Kew <ni...@webthing.com>]

On 14 Dec 2010, at 13:34, Jess Holle wrote:

> Are there any plans to add support for HTML 5 web sockets to Apache?

There are some third-party solutions available.  One of them is at
http://code.google.com/p/pywebsocket/ 

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