NAME¶

HTTP::Proxy::Engine::Legacy - The "older" HTTP::Proxy engine

SYNOPSIS¶

    my $proxy = HTTP::Proxy->new( engine => 'Legacy' );

DESCRIPTION¶

This engine reproduces the older child creation algorithm of HTTP::Proxy. Angelos Karageorgiou "<angelos@unix.gr>" reports: I got the Legacy engine to work really fast under "Win32" with the following trick:

    max_keep_alive_requests(1);
    max_clients(120);
    $HTTP::VERSION(1.0); # just in case

and it smokes. It seems that forked children are really slow when calling select for handling "keep-alive"d requests!

METHODS¶

The module defines the following methods, used by HTTP::Proxy main loop:

start()

Initialise the engine.

run()

Implements the forking logic: a new process is forked for each new incoming TCP connection.

stop()

Reap remaining child processes.

The following method is used by the engine internally:

reap_zombies()

Process the dead child processes.

SEE ALSO¶

HTTP::Proxy, HTTP::Proxy::Engine.

AUTHOR¶

Philippe "BooK" Bruhat, "<book@cpan.org>".

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright 2005-2013, Philippe Bruhat.

LICENSE¶

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.