#Reverse Proxy and HTTP Server

##Status: Incomplete

##Design Goals

• Functionally equivalent and backwards-compatible with Nginx
• Strong focus on Performance, Stability and Security
• Uses Nginx-compatible config files
• Websockets Support
• Modular and extensible

This is a work in progress and is not feature-complete and largely un-tested. The goal is to reach alpha with a set of core features in the near future and after sufficient testing begin battle-testing in a simple production environment.

##Additions / Enhancements to Nginx

• Able to speak HTTP 1.1 to back-end server
• Logfile cycling
• Default behaviour: start proxy connection while still receiving request body (streaming/chunked proxy)
• Optional: receive entire request body (cache to disk) before proxing
• Built-in upload module with progress reporting
• REST-ful API for re-loading config and getting real-time stats

##Future Modules

• In-memory resource caching (Memcached module)
  • Configurable for certain content-types, within file-size constraints
  • Prioritization based on rules and resource popularity
• Real-time CSS/JS minification (using caching module)
• Web-interface for administering / editing config (using REST API)