On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:01, Dossy wrote: > Before we continue this thought, lets step back a second. Is AOLserver > a general purpose, multi-threaded daemon with a Tcl interpreter that > just /coincidentally/ happens to come standard with an HTTP request > processor ... or is AOLserver a specialized application built > specifically for the fast delivery of dynamic web pages, using a > multi-threaded Tcl page generation engine?
It is a special purpose 'HTTP like' request processor over tcp. It would be nice if you could set tcp/udp per ns_sock section. It would be great if ns_http was a separate module. Digest Auth seems pretty useless if it requires storing plain text passwords. That makes a big payoff for breaking into a webserver, database or whatever stores the passwords. This is probably why no one has had reason to use it much. It is extra work for no, or even negative, effect. Having a place to plug in a general authentication module in the form Jim Davidson just suggested seems the best solution. tom jackson -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
