How to retrieve HTTP header from Apache in nginx?

[Aleksandar Lazic]

Hi Alex,

On Fre 12.09.2008 11:16, Alex Man wrote:
> Hi Aleks,
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> The reason I'm using nginx instead of other load balancers such as
> HAProxy and Pound is that they don't support (I believe) the fair
> balancing algorithm provided by the Fair Proxy Balancer
> (http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUpstreamFairModule) module of
> nginx. I would like the load balancer to send request to the
> least-busy ZEO client.

ok.

haproxy can at the moment only:

roundrobin, leastconn, source IP address, uri, url_param and appsession
balancing

the least-busy is pland but a eta is not available.

> I'm using Apache because I'm also using
> <http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/>Shibboleth for authentication and I
> believe the Shibboleth module can only be loaded in Apache.
>
> So, should I still be using nginx for the reason I listed above?
> Thanks a lot!

I think yes.

BR

Aleks