A side note on my previous entry on the cost of operation versus thecosts of development :

It is popular in some quarters to characterize the growing realizationof the (potential) costs of operation as sloppy developers finallyhaving to grow up and live in the real world (where real men programin C and are proud of it), instead of getting to paper over theirsloppyness with Moore's Law and endless hardware budgets.

This is not merely a mistake, it is wrong.

There is a rule in optimization

Our user run webservers rely on the ability torun various web applications that people want to use behind a reverseproxy. Well, the theoretical ability, because it turns out that thereare a couple of things that programs do to make reverse proxying hard(and that they could do differently to make things easier).

First is that they should be willing to use the HTTP proxy headers addedby Apache to get certain bits of information about the request, mostnotably the IP origin address. For obvious reasons, they should