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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 15:05:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: proxy handler
From: Chris Anderson <jchris@apache.org>
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On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Benoit Chesneau<bchesneau@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> 2009/7/5 Chris Anderson <jchris@apache.org>:
>
>> This looks really cool. Can you give more examples of it at work? I'm
>> not sure I total understand. Looks powerful.
>>
>
>
> Main use for this is is proxying remote http services like an XMPP
> bosh connection, or any ajax service that don't do JSONP. Obviously
> couchapps will have some usage for this. Indeed, with this proxy, you
> could aggregate different services on your pages and use them without
> worrying about cross-domain problem.
>
> All you have to proxy a service is to set a local path and destination
> path like this :
>
> [httpd_global_handlers]
> _couchdb =3D {couch_httpd_proxy_handler, handle_proxy_req,
> <<"http://couchdb.apache.org">>}
> _friendpaste =3D {couch_httpd_proxy_handler, handle_proxy_req,
> <<"http://friendpaste.com">>}
>
>
> and now you could do use friendpaste api from your application. (which
> won't be needed soon, but that's another story).
>
>
> Right now the request body isn't streamed and I would like to have a
> way to send it whil receiving it. Maybe it's not possible but I failed
> for now to understand how mochiweb api works with it.
>

I've heard you can just connect the raw sockets together and it
works... not sure how that would look in practice.

> Hope it's more understandable now :)
>
> - beno=EEt
>


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