"Ram�n Jim�nez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Denver Braughler wrote:
>
> > I see nothing wrong with an internal webserver to support an entire
> > website that is largely driven by CSP.
> > This limits adverse system impact and makes sense, imo.
>
> I think the problem is that users will then want to do lots of stuff
> with this Web server in addition to serve CSP. Like standard security,
> CGI, ActiveX and whatnot. Hence putting ISC in the position of having to
> support a Web server, when in fact they are moving *away* from it...
>

Not to mention the ability to manage thread pools, TCP/IP connections and
other things I don't fully understand.

> > Using Apache is a waste of memory and CPU resources when a simple COS
routine
> > is all you need.
>
> ... and are indeed bundling the very Apache with 5.1 and dropping 1972
> as Web server altogether. At least I read it here a couple of months
> ago, from Bill.
>

Hope you are right. On top of everything else, the existance of the
webserver is a potential security hole. Cache has been lucky in that a lot
of its success from major hacking has derived from its obscurity. I wonder
what would happend if a million world-wide hackers started tearing it apart?
-- 
John Bertoglio
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