How Glacier2 uses Request Contexts
The Glacier2 router examines the context of an incoming request for special keys that affect how the router forwards the request. These contexts have the same semantics regardless of whether the request is sent from client to server or from server to client.
The _fwd Context
The _fwd context determines the proxy mode that the router uses when forwarding the request. The value associated with the _fwd key must be a string containing one or more of the characters shown in the following table:
Value | Mode |
|---|---|
d or D | Datagram |
o or O | Oneway |
t | Twoway |
z | Compress |
Legal values for the _fwd context key.
These characters match the corresponding stringified proxy options, except the Glacier2 router does not support batched invocations.
If the _fwd key is not present in a request context, the mode used by the router to forward that request depends on the request ID:
If the sender sent the request as twoway (request ID > 0), the router also uses twoway mode.
If the sender sent the request as a oneway or batch oneway (request ID == 0), the router forwards the request as a oneway request.
Context Forwarding
The configuration properties Glacier2.Client.ForwardContext and Glacier2.Server.ForwardContext determine whether the router includes the context when forwarding a request. The former property affects requests from clients to servers, while the latter affects requests from servers to clients. If a property is not defined or has the value zero, the router does not include the context when forwarding requests.
The configuration property Glacier2.AddConnectionContext determines whether the router includes the connection information in the context when forwarding a request.