Uh, iirc, the assumption here was that the proxy and the application server (and its resources) were not necessarily located on the same physical machine. Serv

Uh, iirc, the assumption here was that the proxy and the application server (and its resources) were not necessarily located on the same physical machine. Serving static content off the proxy is certainly another option, but it involves a different kind of deployment than having the application servers still provide the (initial) request for static content.