How does tux redirect the request to the secondary server?

[tux at mikebell.org]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:46:17PM +0800, shiner chen wrote:
> does the secondary server send the response to client directly ? if tux does like that ,I want to know how does it do that!  thanks !

It does. TUX is able to pass the connection on to the secondary server
because it is in the kernel. There was some time a while ago about a
syscall to allow userspace HTTP daemons to do the same thing, but I
don't recall anything coming of it.