On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >> Do we need an Apache server? >> Why not writing (in c/c++) a small daemon listening on another port >> (e.g. 8080) and having a pool of threads translating from GET requests >> to mysql querries and from mysql results to xml? > > Famous last words: "Let's just write a small HTTP daemon..." ;-) > > Sure it's possible but you'd end up firstly not supporting a lot of stuff > that you get for free if you use an Apache server (e.g. keepalive, output > compression, HTTPS support) and secondly you're very likely to introduce > tons of bugs and security holes that the Apache folks have long since > thought of.
There will be no bugs and security holes in a Apache module? If I have some spare time (and a rainy weekend), I'll investigate some time in this object (the module or the whole server :). Regards Raphael _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
