ForwardFrame

This resource is tha base class for the ProxyFrame and the MirrorFrame classes. It uses the w3c HTTP client side API to forward requests to either some other server, or some proxy.

Before configuring the caching part of this resource, you should read the Jigsaw's client API reference manual, which defines all the properties supported.

Inherits

The ForwardFrame class inerits from the following classes:

• Resource
• FramedResource
• ResourceFrame
• ProtocolFrame
• HTTPFrame

Attributes description

The ForwardFrame defines the following attributes:

• local-root
• received-by
• trace-request

semantics

The follow up root resource, when the received request is targeted explicitly to the server. This followup root resource, is given by its name, and should already exist in the root resource store.

type

This attribute is an editable StringAttribute

default value

This attribute defaults to null.

semantics

The String that the proxy will emit as the received-by part of the Via header.

type

This attribute is an editable StringAttribute

default value

This attribute defaults to null.

semantics

Should this frame try to trace how the request has been processed

type

This attribute is an editable BooleanAttribute

default value

This attribute defaults to null.

Jigsaw Team
$Id: org.w3c.jigsaw.proxy.ForwardFrame.html,v 1.3 1998/03/27 08:20:53 bmahe Exp $