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18th February 2008 - Link Blog

Apache proxy auto-re-loader. Neat trick: set your 502 (Bad Gateway) error document to include a meta refresh tag, automating the refresh needed should a server you are proxying to be temporarily unavailable.

Posted 18th February 2008 at 9:44 am

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