I find it interesting how people will grab one particular part of a
post and completely disregard the rest. I don't really care too much
about this rather silly discussion, but ability to bludgeon doesn't
make you correct and I feel the need to point that out.
Apache takes a request (string + other request information) and
translates it to a specific action. That may be showing an directory
index, serving up the contents of a file, or executing a particular
bundle of code (via CGI or any number of other methods). Depending
on how it is configured, it can perform access control /
authorization and numerous other bits of functionality.
That is what a dispatcher does. There is no requirement that the
thing a dispatcher decides to do is in one particular arbitrarily
defined bundle of code.
Using apache as your only dispatcher may be out of fashion, or
outmoded, or whatever you choose to call it, but that doesn't mean it
isn't a dispatcher.
Point being that frameworks provide more than choosing what to do,
and if you stop the comparison at that point, then you might as well
include every web server in your comparison.
It was intended to point out one of the problems with the benchmark,
using an extreme example.
I need to remember that subtlety has no place on mailing lists.
Jay
Hmm, you’re right. I guess I’ll start writing my apps as lots of
little CGI scripts so that I can use the Apache dispatching.
No wait, this isn’t 1992 anymore.
(Except for many PHP people who’re still stuck there.)
Last I checked, Apache’s URI translation won’t route requests to
particular methods within an app that’s launched from a single
script, so no, Apache is not a dispatcher in the sense that
Catalyst or RoR is.
You can of course load your app *into* the webserver with
mod_perl, in which case you can configure Apache to dispatch the
URI to a particular method in your app; but I mentioned that as
an exception in the previous mail anyway. I assumed that would be
enough of a hint, but I guess I expected too much.
Are we done splitting this hair now or do you need more
clarification?
Regards,
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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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