-Set up a simple balancer with only the second node accessible and running: <Proxy "balancer: //mycluster" > BalancerMember http: //127.0.0.1:8081 route=node1 BalancerMember http: //127.0.0.1:8080 route=node2 ProxySet stickysession=JSESSIONID </Proxy> ProxyPass /helloworld balancer: //mycluster/helloworld stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid -Attempt a POST request, note the failure to node1 and then see the POST body is not sent and the request content-length is 0 in the request proxied to node2 -Re-attempt the request while node1 is still in an error state, and the POST body is not impacted