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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implement
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes |
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Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:04:11 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Robin Green <address@hidden>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:56:40PM +0000, Scott Parish wrote:
> > I was thinking about this some last week; i've completely given up on
> > the smart server as a cgi concept--it would work, but its too much
> > of a hackish mess.
> If you literally meant CGI, CGI is inefficient - separate process
> spawned per request, which has to start up and restore state each
> time. As opposed to a module or servlet or dedicated server or
> whatever which can keep state in memory. So I agree.
At the time the CGI idea came up there was a problem users were facing
more commonly than they seem to recently: wanting to put up a remote
archive on a host to which they have incredibly limited administrative
access. For example, a user might have a shell account somewhere
where they can put web pages and CGI scripts, but not have SSH or
WebDAV access to that host. A CGI transport would let such users
host a secure archive.
As a side effect, a CGI transport _might_ have been a good framework
in which to experiment with smart server features -- but no doubt
Colin's new work is a better framework.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Bruce Stephens, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server,, Mirian Crzig Lennox, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server,, Colin Walters, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Scott Parish, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Robin Green, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Colin Walters, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Scott Parish, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Scott Parish, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Andrew Suffield, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Scott Parish, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Colin Walters, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Jan Hudec, 2004/01/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Momchil Velikov, 2004/01/31
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] RFC: arch protocol, smart server, and tla implementation prototypes, Jan Hudec, 2004/01/31