Amir Michail wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >>Amir Michail wrote: >> >> >>>Is there an easy way to do this without modifying the configuration of >>>the cgi server and without running a cgi server on the other machine >>>where the script will actually run? >>> >>>Perhaps someone wrote a simple server that provides the required >>>environment for the cgi script to run? >>> >>>I'm looking for something simple that does not require root access. >> >>you could of course use something like >> >> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-CGIHTTPServer.html >> >>or some other light-weight web server, but you should probably have in mind >>that doing things like this without coordinating with your server >>administrators >>and security architects *before* you start tinkering can be a excellent way to >>get fired... >> >></F> > > > I would like to do this to improve performance by avoiding nfs. (The > required data is not on the cgi server.) > > The advice I got was to use something like MySQL with a client/server > architecture. > > However, I thought it would be easier to simply run the core part of > the script off the cgi server, thereby avoiding nfs for data lookups. > > So I guess the point is that such a solution is more likely to be a > security risk than MySQL? > > Amir > You are hardly likely to improve performance by substituting a fairly high-level application like CGI or MySQL for NFS. But later you suggest that security is the issue rather than performance. I'm confused.
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