Re: PropRequestFilter help -- setting up a proxy / more filter questions

Yves Lafon wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Paul Pazandak wrote:
>
> > >
> >
> ...
> >
> > Fine. Now I have two questions, one on proxies and one on these filters.
> >
> > 1) Say that an ingoing filter sets up some threaded processing, or
> > modifies some state
> >     that requires some additional work by the outgoing filter. If the
> > request is cancelled
> >     before the outgoing filter is called, how can we ensure that at
> > least some clean up routines
> >     are called?
>
> The only possibility to exit before calling the outgoing filter is if the
> request fail. In that case, the exception filter is called (see
> ProxyDispatcher), then you can set the cleaning here.
> Or, with this exception filter you can do things to avoid future
> exceptions, and ask for a retry. (this is the do { ... } while (rtry) in
> the perform method of w3c.www.protocol.http.HttpManager)

Perfect! That's some slick code there... what more could a filter want?

>  
>
> > 2) Any time I have tried to configure Jigsaw as a proxy Jigsaw chokes at the point of
> >     saving the properties...this doesn't occur in NT, only in Win95. The basic sets are:
> >     1) create a proxy resource, e.g. called proxy, in the root
> >     2) configure it so it's local-root is root
> >     3) change the general props so that w3c.jigsaw.root.name is now proxy
> >     4) save the properties. (chokes)
> >         ...I noticed the via: attribute is growing in size.    I've included a recent dump
> below.
> >
> > Paul.
>
> Hum... the server name is objs-mn-2.visi.com, and you try to access
> 206.11.252.26. As it doesn't match the server name, it is forwarded to...
> 206.11.252.26. Then... same process... -> loop...
> It eats up all your threads and all your clients, then wait for one which
> is here due to the first read timeout, and so on...
> You should access the proxy with its own name, or change it to be the IP
> address (quite ugly as a name!)
>  

Hey, I thought the name was kind of catchy! Oh well. I had been accessingthe server via it's IP,
when I used the "ugly" name it worked just fine. Finally!

Thanks,

Paul.
 

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Received on Wednesday, 10 December 1997 10:47:10 UTC