> All of you folks who have to answer user questions, go ahead and ready > your > hate mail :)
This is not a hate-mail (: > I've been playing some with Varnish (long story) and lots of people > seem to > like it. The config "language" (VCL) is just a thin wrapper on top of > C. > Heck, you can just write C inline. I know and love varnish. And sadly, the only reason I don't use it right now, is because it's oblivious of SSL. > So, we thought about "wouldn't it just be cool if Apache had VCL." > Then I > thought, I already know C, why do I need to learn a meta-language that > just > writes C??? "Won't someone think of the users!" I could here all of > the > #httpd folks saying. > > Not a terribly interesting read, but we are seriously considering just > using > straight C with some helper functions and macros as the "config" for > one of > our projects. > > And, for the record I was wrong in the past - yes, async is the > answer... I've been a longtime critic, though I haven't taken it to the list, of the httpd Configuration Language. For other reasons than performance though -- mostly sane defaults, but that's an entirely different topic. BUT: I did my share of support on nginx - even though I don't know it well enough and nginx, like varnish, uses a C-like syntax for the configs. I for one, would welcome such a possibility. -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 699 122 96 338 Fax: +43(0) 1 91 333 41 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/
