I remember asking about this at the Allaire DEV conference 2 years ago ....
I'm by no means an authority ...but I think I can answer some of these, if
anyone know better speak up.
1) I'm entirely sure, I remember the developer saying RPC, but Allaire seems
to be saying "standard TCP/IP sockets" areas used for communication. What
happens is that a stub is installed on a web server that calls the main CF
app server running on another machine. The remote machine processes the
request and returns the output to the stub, which then returns it to the web
server
2) CFM files would reside on the remote server.
3) I asked one of the allire Unix developers .....they didn't particularly
hesitate in saying ...don't do this .... its going to kill performance. For
each CF request you are now incurring a good deal additional remote
communication overhead.
4) This article may help ...I think this capability is a hold over from when
Allaire started porting CF to Linux
http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=9190&Method=Full&Cache=Off
hope this helps.
-eric
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sandra Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:05 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Distributed Processing regarding CF and a separate Web Server
One of my clients is considering moving CF processing separate from the Web
Server. I have a few questions which will need to be answered (The reasons
that we are doing this have nothing to do with programming and everything to
do with bureacracy).
1. Does anyone know (and can explain) how communication between the remote
cf server and the web server communicate. What protocol it uses?
2. Where do the cfm files need to reside, on the cf server or on the web
server.
Any help would be appreciated.
Sandy Clark
Shayna Productions
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