Hi! I have concluded the work of getting the nsproxy module from the AOLserver repository into ours.
There have been *numerous* changes and improvements to the initial code. See ChangeLog for more details. There is also a test-suite and a man-page written in doctools. All is under the nsproxy directory which is new so you may need to checkout your sandbox. To get a html or nroff file from ns_proxy.man, please see the docs/src/README.doc file. The sample-config.tcl now includes the nsproxy module. Also the test server used for "make test" loads and exercises the module. As of my experience, it works fine on Mac OSX, Linux and Solaris OS'es. Please checkoout the new nsproxy and tell me if you get any problems with it. We plan to deploy it in one of the next releases of our product. Our main motivation to work on that was the ability to execute Tcl code in a controllable manner outside the server and under different user/group than the server itself. Our app runs the nsd as root but at some places we need to execute some Tcl code as different user. Now, under Unix threading model it is not possible to "impersonate" a thread, which is possible only under Windows. For Unix we need to get the code executed in a different process, hence I was very pleased to see Jim adding this nsproxy module to AOLserver. I believe this was just a small rewrite of the db-proxy module. But it is in itself a very helpful thing for us. It will hopefully be of use for the rest of the Naviserver users. Off-topic: At this point it is clear that we need to invest more time in getting the docs written. We now have so much new functionality built into the server that I start loosing the overview. I would encourage everybody to look into the files in doctools provided so far and start adding content. In one of the next days I will add a template page for each Tcl-API command under the docs/src. Cheers Zoran
