From: Takashi Sato <takashi@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:52:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merge the rest of r627729 from trunk:
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Merge the rest of r627729 from trunk:
wordsmithing


Merge r409455 from trunk:
* Add a note about trailing slashes for ProxyPass and fix the balancer example
  accordingly.

PR: 39203

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x@663989 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
index 76496181299..ed73e44a310 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy.xml
@@ -598,6 +598,14 @@ expressions</description>
     <code>http://example.com/mirror/foo/bar</code> to be internally converted
     into a proxy request to <code>http://backend.example.com/bar</code>.</p>
 
+    <note type="warning">
+    <p>If the first argument ends with a trailing <strong>/</strong>, the second
+       argument should also end with a trailing <strong>/</strong> and vice
+       versa. Otherwise the resulting requests to the backend may miss some
+       needed slashes and do not deliver the expected results.
+    </p>
+    </note>
+
     <p>The <code>!</code> directive is useful in situations where you don't want
     to reverse-proxy a subdirectory, <em>e.g.</em></p>
 
@@ -672,7 +680,7 @@ expressions</description>
     This helps in various situations where a firewall between Apache and
     the backend server (regardless of protocol) tends to silently
     drop connections or when backends themselves may be under round-
-    robin DNS. To prevent mod_proxy from reusing the backend connection,
+    robin DNS. To disable connection pooling reuse,
     set this property value to <code>On</code>. 
     </td></tr>
     <tr><td>flushpackets</td>
@@ -820,7 +828,7 @@ expressions</description>
     <p>A sample balancer setup</p>
     <example>
       ProxyPass /special-area http://special.example.com/ smax=5 max=10<br />
-      ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid nofailover=On<br />
+      ProxyPass / balancer://mycluster/ stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid nofailover=On<br />
       &lt;Proxy balancer://mycluster&gt;<br />
       <indent>
         BalancerMember http://1.2.3.4:8009<br />