On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:
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> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:
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> > > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > > > That sounds pretty good, however, how about my fastcgi question?
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> > > > I told you the basic architecture, what do you want to know more ?
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> > > > - Davide
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> > > Just any ideas you have, if any, on specific implementation. In a
> > > nutshell, I had trouble finding definite documentation on implementing
> > > this with xmail. Like, how to keep a perl process running? ie - do I need
> > > to install it as a service? And then how to manage the sockets and if this
> > > is already partially handled with the fastcgi perl modules? To be honest I
> > > had trouble getting my wits around the fastcgi docs I read...
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> > > If you don't have any other suggestion ok and thanks, just wondering if
> > > you did.
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> > I don't know very much about perl but i know for sure that it can be done.
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> > - Davide
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> Fair enough. I do have a proposal for you, though, which I think could be
> useful and not difficult to implement.
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> What about making it possible for xmail to call a .dll when executing a
> filter script?
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> It would then be possible to use products that are supported and stable
> products for persistent "cgi" execution. For example, Activestate's PerlEx
> product which is works with web servers.
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> PerlEx keeps not only the perl interpreter persistent in memory, it also
> keeps a compiled version of the script in memory and so drastically
> increases performance.
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> On a web server this is done by mapping an extension such as .cgi to the
> PerlEx dll. Then when a user requests something.cgi the web server
> executes it with the appropriate .dll. Very fast and would make filters
> running on windows machines extremely low overhead for those willing to
> pay for it.

No i do not intend to have external program running in the context of
XMail. By using a 20Kb C program that issue a socket ( localhost or unix
sockets ) to a server you can achieve the same performance w/out having
"external stuff" running inside the server context.




- Davide


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