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| author | Luca Toscano <elukey@apache.org> | 2017-01-24 09:56:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Luca Toscano <elukey@apache.org> | 2017-01-24 09:56:19 +0000 |
| commit | c310b723219cdd49846fece5683b0370251cf499 (patch) | |
| tree | 517d1a554c801105a0881f1b915c3c89e10ac1e1 | |
| parent | 793dbb343e045bbae05e53cc41f6225fceb2627d (diff) | |
| download | httpd-c310b723219cdd49846fece5683b0370251cf499.tar.gz | |
Merge r1779578, r1779609 from trunk:
Added more details to mod-proxy-http2's doc
Reworked mod-proxy-http2's documentation after Stefan's suggestions
Submitted by: elukey
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x@1780044 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy_http2.xml | 32 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy_http2.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy_http2.xml index d6bcae9aa2..a92f2ea458 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy_http2.xml +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy_http2.xml @@ -30,20 +30,28 @@ <identifier>proxy_http2_module</identifier> <summary> - <p>This module <em>requires</em> the service of <module - >mod_proxy</module>. It provides the features used for - proxying HTTP/2 requests. <module>mod_proxy_http2</module> - supports HTTP/2 only. It does <em>not</em> - provide any downgrades to HTTP/1.1.</p> + <p><module>mod_proxy_http2</module> + supports HTTP/2 only, it does <em>not</em> + provide any downgrades to HTTP/1.1. This means that the backend + needs to support HTTP/2 because HTTP/1.1 will not be used instead.</p> - <p>Thus, in order to get the ability of handling HTTP/2 proxy requests, + <p>This module <em>requires</em> the service of <module + >mod_proxy</module>, so in order to get the ability of + handling HTTP/2 proxy requests, <module>mod_proxy</module> and <module>mod_proxy_http2</module> - have to be present in the server.</p> - - <p><module>mod_proxy_http2</module> works with incoming requests - over HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 requests. If <module>mod_http2</module> - handles the frontend connection, requests against the same HTTP/2 - backend are sent over a single connection, whenever possible.</p> + need to be both loaded by the server.</p> + + <p><module>mod_proxy_http2</module> works with incoming fronted requests + using HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2. In both cases, requests proxied + to the same backend are sent over a single TCP connection + whenever possible (namely when the connection can be re-used).</p> + + <p>Caveat: there will be no attemp to consolidate multiple HTTP/1.1 + frontend requests (configured to be proxied to the same backend) + into HTTP/2 streams belonging to the same HTTP/2 request. + Each HTTP/1.1 frontend request will be proxied to the backend using + a separate HTTP/2 request (trying to re-use the same TCP connection + if possible).</p> <p>This module relies on <a href="http://nghttp2.org/">libnghttp2</a> to provide the core http/2 engine.</p> |