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Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
Indeed - it would be seriously pointless wheel reinvention to create
our own HTTP server and I can guarantee it would never be as good or
as protocol compliant as ones which already exist.
Tom
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Tom Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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