Pound is a reverse load balancer, HTTP proxy and SSL wrapper. It proxies client HTTPS requests to HTTP backend servers, distributes the requests among several servers while keeping sessions, supports HTTP/1.1 requests even if the backend server(s) are HTTP/1.0, and sanitizes requests.
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Here are some key features of "Pound":
· a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more back-end servers.
· a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session information.
· an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end servers.
· an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and accept only well-formed ones.
· a fail over-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take note of the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers.
· a request redirector: requests may be distributed among servers according to the requested URL.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Support for SNI via multiple Cert directives.
· A pre-defined number of threads for better performance on small hardware.
· Translation of hexadecimal characters in the URL for pattern matching.
· Support for a "Disabled" directive in the configuration.
· More detailed error logging.
· Allows multiple AddHeader directives.
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