[Mod_gzip] mod_gzip & Aventail ExtraWeb

[Casadonte, Joe]

Hi Michael,

I'm just a third-party user of Aventail (our clients have Aventail set up at
their site), so take what I say as second-hand knowledge.  Our web app just
goes thru their Aventail layer.

> So if Aventail Extranet is nothing but a system of proxies,
> then think of mod_gzip as acting together with any kind of
> proxy you can imagine.
> Their description tells nothing about caching, so I would
> imagine this thing to be really nothing more than a reverse
> HTTP proxy that is able to apply a SSL layer on top of any
> network traffic (includig HTTP) that it is forwarding.
> 
> If so, then it is working on some different layer than
> mod_gzip, and both should not take notice of each other -
> i. e. cooperation between some Apache with mod_gzip and
> some Aventail Extraweb gateway should not be a problem.

Well, yes and no.  Aventail maps URLS coming in and then re-parses outbound
HTML & JavaScript to re-map URLS again (it's a performance nightmare).  

It's my understanding that Aventail is basically a rewrite of mod_proxy, so
hopefully it has no more of a footprint that stock mod_proxy does.  I don't
know if the content-encoding comes after mod_proxy in outbound traffic.  If
so, I would think we have a much better chance of success.  I assume that
Aventail is Apache 1.3, at least the version we're using.

Thanks!

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Regards,


joe
Joe Casadonte
Global Logistics Technologies, Inc.
jcasadonte@glog.com