[mod_python] Help with mod_python, mod_proxy & cookies

Marc Boorshtein mboorshtein at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 20:18:13 EST 2007


> > 1. when is 3.3 estimated to go gold?
>
> There hasn't been a single complaint about 3.3.0b since it was released back
> before Christmas. I don't know whether this is because no one is using it, or
> because it is working out to be so good. The only thing probably stopping it
> from being released as non beta is apathy on our part. ;-)
>

fair enough.  need to tell my boss something to make him happy :-D

> > 2. do you have any notion of how much overhead mod_python would add to
> > a regular reverse proxy?
>
> It wouldn't be much as the fixuphandler is called only once per request and
> even the output filter is only called once with the output filter not actually
> process the body of the response at all, just fiddling the headers and then
> stepping out of the way. Only your own testing will indicate for sure what
> the overhead will be.
>

good to know, will be running some performance tests in the next week
or so (assuming I get the code to work).

Thanks Again!
Marc


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