Pound (networking)

Pound is a reverse proxy, a load balancer and HTTPS wrapper. He can (ie primarily browsers ) Forward requests from Web clients to rules based on one or more web servers. In particular, Pound can recognize sessions, for example by cookies or login strings. An even recognize session is always routed in sequence to the same web server.

You can pound used as a load balancer to distribute incoming requests across multiple Web servers, thus minimizing the overall burden. He is also an SSL wrapper, so it can decrypt incoming encrypted communication and then forward unencrypted to the working web server in the background.

Since pound the majority of all requests by enough completely unchanged, it should be compatible and not cause any problems with any type of web server ( such as Apache, IIS, Zope, Apache Tomcat, etc.).

Pound is not a web server, so does not process any requests itself, but extends only to the underlying operating server ( backend ) on. He also is not a web cache, so does not buffer data, in order to answer frequent questions quickly.