HTTP::Proxy::Engine::Legacy(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  HTTP::Proxy::Engine::Legacy(3pm)

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, Philippe Bruhat.

LICENSE

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

perl v5.12.4							    2011-07-03					  HTTP::Proxy::Engine::Legacy(3pm)