On Wednesday 18 August 2004 16:43, Robert Seeger wrote: > Given the current movement of this thread in the direction of "You're > wrong... no, you are!!", I figured I'd toss something out in an attempt > to set it back on track a bit. > > What, exactly, is the goal that we are trying to accomplish by applying > one of these patches? Can we put together a list of goals and a list of > constraints, and then analyze whether or not these patches meet those > requirements? If they don't, we can then go ahead and determine what is > missing, and if its something that can be added later, or it the > approach of the patch would preclude it.
THANK YOU! This is exactly what WAS the intention of the discussion. The goal/intention in a nutshell: Allow AS to be a fast and scalable any_protocol instead of the http_only protocol server. This should *not* harm AS main role of being the good http server. It should *augment* its capabilities, rather. If you look in the past: In 3.x there was Win32 support. In 4.0 it was taken out. Luckily, Jamie Rassmusen, (thank's Jamie) went and got the support back into the core. In 3.x it was possible to serve alternative protocols. In 4.0 the hook was taken out. Why? Because AOL could not maintain it? As with Win32? But there are people in the community who *have* the knowledge and time to do it. And more importantly: they need it, otherwise they would not go that far to write complete ready-to-use code including sample usage and post it to SF as RFE's. Before doing anything else, I would kindly ask anybody interested to go and *look* at the provided patches and build his/her own oppinion. By doing this, most of the questions will immediately be answered, or for the ones which didn't, the patch authors will be happy (I assume) to give any explanations needed. They tried so, numerous times, as evident from the responses so far. I think accepting the "idea" is much more important then the actual given implementation. I can't really see how this might, even remotely, harm the project. Zoran -- 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.
