[Mongrel-development] Small updates and release plan

Zed A. Shaw
Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:52:51 -0000

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:11:38 +1100
Dave Cheney <dave at cheney.net> wrote:

> Yes - it means using nginx as a proxy to mongrel will actually work !
>
> The current behavior ''stuns'' nginx every time mongrel
decides it
> doesn''t like the request as passed (which is fair, nginx
isn''t as
> strict in its request parsing as mongrel) causing it to try every
> mongrel in the balancer group in quick succession. The patch makes
> mongrel behave correctly according to the spec and report the correct
> error rather than relying on nginx to pass back a 50x when there are
> no mongrel left.

Which part of the spec?  ''Cause last time I looked that part of the
spec only applied to a webserver talking to a client.  NOT to a proxy server
which, if written correctly, should try the next server when the one it just
tried dies.

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