William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >>All this shows that running UDP in Apache can make sense, and I tried >>to get some attention about it one year ago.. But somehow everybody >>thought that UDP inside Apache can be used only for HTTP-over-UDP, >>which is indeed controversial.. I hope that full UDP-support will not >>be neglected in the next Apache release :-) > > > Let me offer one thought here. I'm -0 on including this patch in Apache for > one very simple reason. We are a standards-based server. Yes, UDP is > a clear standard, as is HTTP. But in order to incorporate your patch, I would > want to see nothing less than a draft RFC explaining the what and why of > what you are accomplishing, with community review.
I agree with the rest of what you said, but this doesn't seem right to me, unless I'm misunderstanding. For a start, RFCs are not appropriate for software architecture. Secondly, there's a ton of RFCs describing services based on UDP. I can see no problem with having Apache have generalised support for such services. But perhaps I'm missing the point? Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
