HTTP router

The big picture

Articles

• Making applications scalable with Load Balancing;
• An HTTP reverse proxy for realtime;
• HTTP GRIP and the Proxy-and-Hold technique;
• HAProxy Architecture Guide;
• The PROXY protocol -- Versions 1 & 2;
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing (draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-22);
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content (draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-22);

Projects

• HAProxy --- high performance HTTP and TCP load-balancer;
• nginx --- flexible HTTP server and reverse proxy;
• Mongrel2 --- interesting HTTP reverse proxy;
• stud --- SSL stripping;
• stunnel --- SSL stripping;
• ZeroMQ --- messaging middleware;
• hipache --- highly dynamic HTTP reverse proxy;
• wk --- HTTP benchmarking;
• Traffic Server --- edge HTTP reverse proxy;
• https://github.com/igrigorik/zeroconf-router --- similar prototype (abandoned);
• https://github.com/joerussbowman/Scale0 --- similar prototype (abandoned);