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Revers proxy sync/async question

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Does Apache in reverse proxy mode cache the complete response from the backend before forwarding it the client, or does it send the data to the client as it receives it? In other words, if the backend server only produced and transmitted a response, how would apache proxy server react?

posted Sep 5, 2013 by Naveena Garg

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