Off the top of my head: ewgi (pronounced eww-gee): Erlang Web Gateway Interface ewai (pronounced eww-i): Erlang Web App Interface ewsi (pronounced eww-see): Erlang Web Server Interface
--Kevin On Nov 12, 2007 10:57 PM, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Werl (Wsgi for ERLang) like the magical Smerl > Wack like Rack which is a clean Ruby WSGI: > > http://rack.rubyforge.org/ > > > > > On Nov 12, 3:31 pm, Roberto Saccon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Name suggestions: erlwgate, gaterl, werlgate, uniweb, erlywebunify or > > a greek god as fantasy name. > > > > Roberto > > > > On Nov 12, 7:09 pm, Filippo Pacini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've only used yaws for now and gave a quick look to mochiweb and > > > iserve, but I'd like to test one of the two sooner or later. > > > > > For the interface following python's wsgi implementation we can think at > > > it as having two sides: the "server" or "gateway" side and the > > > "framework" one. > > > The framework side is a module providing a fun (e.g. handle_req) > > > accepting an environment record (basically a wrapper around the http > > > request and containing also data specific for the framework) and a > > > callback from the "gateway" side to send the response to the server. > > > The server/gateway for every http request it translates the request data > > > from the server format to the environment format and invokes the > > > application fun. > > > > > I should already have some code written. I'll try to improve it, test at > > > least with mochiweb and yaws and put it online somewhere. > > > Suggestions for a name? erlwsgi seems quite ugly. > > > > > filippo > > > > > Roberto Saccon wrote: > > > > I actually started long time ago to make erlyweb work with iserve, but > > > > never got to a point where it actually worked. > > > > Anyway, erlyweb on mochiweb would rock, and a common gateway interface > > > > even more ! > > > > > > Filippo, do you have a concrete suggestion for such a gateway > > > > interface ? > > > > > > For using mochiweb to replace yaws you need to be aware that mochiweb > > > > is not a webserver (you have to build one from scratch using > > > > mochiweb) and does not offer anything for static file serving, so you > > > > need either to rely purely on a CDN, or another webserver (Lighttpd or > > > > nginx) or add static fileserving and ETAG handling to mochiweb. > > > > > > regards > > > > Roberto > > > > > >> Hi, > > > >> at the moment we have at least four different erlang web servers (yaws, > > > >> mochiweb, inets_httpd and iserve). IMHO it would be a good idea having > > > >> a > > > >> little gateway interface like python's > > > >> wsgi:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/ > > > > > >> This would allow easily building frameworks and libraries abstracting > > > >> from the underlying server. You write frameworks and libraries using > > > >> the > > > >> gateway interface without worrying whether you are working with yaws, > > > >> mochiweb or whatever. > > > > > >> I've been thinking about this for a while but hadn't have much time to > > > >> work on it yet. > > > >> What do you think? > > > > > >> cheers, > > > >> filippo > > > > > >> Yariv Sadan wrote: > > > >>> Now there's definitely a good reason to remove the dependency on the > > > >>> Yaws arg. It shouldn't be too hard -- I think the only internal > > > >>> dependency is where ErlyWeb inspects the appmod to derive the > > > >>> requested component. If anyone wishes to use ErlyWeb with MochiWeb, it > > > >>> would be great it they took on this little project and contributed > > > >>> their work. (I've already started using Yaws for Vimagi, so I don't > > > >>> want to go through the trouble of switching, but MochiWeb does look > > > >>> like a great alternative for new apps.) > > > >>> On Nov 11, 2007 10:15 PM, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>> MochiWeb was recently open sourced: > > > >>>> Announcement: > > > >>>>http://bob.pythonmac.org/archives/2007/11/07/mochiweb-another-faster-... > > > >>>> Google Code: > > > >>>>http://code.google.com/p/mochiweb/ > > > >>>> Google Group: > > > >>>>http://groups.google.com/group/mochiweb > > > >>>> ErlyMochiWeb anyone? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "erlyweb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/erlyweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
