.------[ Dan Muey wrote (2003/06/03 at 09:14:25) ]------
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| > But I am intrigued...why do you think LWP doesn't use
| > a webserver?
|
| The same reason a browser or 'User Agent' doesn't need a server,
| because it handles the http session itself. It doesn't "serve" pages
| but it can do http requests to get pages. Like using the Net::SMTP or
| Mail::Sender modules don't require you to have an smtp server running
| locally. Like using DBI doen't require you have mysql running locally.
|
| Verses say piping data to a from a local db,smtp server , or web server.
|
| Any comments from anybody who knows for sure? Am I just crazy or is
| that assumption actually the case?
|
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I haven't followed this whole thread, but yes you don't need a
"server" 99.9% of the time when all you being the "client". That is
pretty much the main advantage to building client/server
applications.
The only case I can think of where this isn't always true is
outbound E-mail. Most E-mail clients like Outlook need an outbound
SMTP server to relay their E-mail through. This mostly due to the
dial-up nature/roots of the Internet. Since the "client" wasn't
going to be online 24/7 it needed to drop off the E-mail on an SMTP
server so that the server could repeatedly try to deliver the E-mail
message.
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