Introducing backend healthchecking plugin

[Michael Shadle]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Arvind Jayaprakash <work at anomalizer.net> wrote:

> (2) In addition, the health-check module provides an out of band health
> check mechanism wherein, it periodically polls a specific url and uses
> the HTTP status/body to determine if an upstream needs to be marked as
> up or down

+1

This has been something in my mind that will help advance nginx
further as a load balancing option.