Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2011-01-08 Thread Brian McCallister
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:48 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 12/30/2010 8:09 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: >> >> I mean take the CMS I just wrote with mod_perl.  It's 2K LOC, uses a custom >> map_to_storage handler, and defers a good chunk of its (sub)requests to httpd >> for things like autoindex

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 12/30/2010 8:09 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > I mean take the CMS I just wrote with mod_perl. It's 2K LOC, uses a custom > map_to_storage handler, and defers a good chunk of its (sub)requests to httpd > for things like autoindex and negotiation and plain-old file serving, and > forwards > a use

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread Joe Schaefer
ginal Message > From: Joe Schaefer > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 9:09:32 PM > Subject: Re: Inspiration for mod_lua > > - Original Message > > > From: William A. Rowe Jr. > > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > > Sent

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: William A. Rowe Jr. > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 8:48:51 PM > Subject: Re: Inspiration for mod_lua > > On 12/30/2010 6:52 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > > > Blech. The upside to mod_perl is that you

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 12/30/2010 6:52 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > > Blech. The upside to mod_perl is that you get the rest of the server for > free. mod_fcgid (or even mod_wsgi) is the same old crappy impoverished > CGI interface. Hmmm, fork for exec is that insignificant? Not according to any data I've seen. I a

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message > From: William A. Rowe Jr. > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 7:45:54 PM > Subject: Re: Inspiration for mod_lua > > On 12/30/2010 6:08 PM, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > > > The problem with mod_python was that it

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 12/30/2010 6:08 PM, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > The problem with mod_python was that it was poorly implemented. If you > were start from scratch and do it over, it would be possible to make > it much more light weight. The mod_wsgi module has shown this can be > the case. The best solution of

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On 31 December 2010 10:56, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 12/30/2010 3:25 PM, Graham Dumpleton wrote: >> On 31 December 2010 07:37, Brian McCallister wrote: >>> 2010/12/28 Igor Galić : Hey folks, I'm looking for some inspiration on how to make good use of mod_lua. Those famil

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 12/30/2010 3:25 PM, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > On 31 December 2010 07:37, Brian McCallister wrote: >> 2010/12/28 Igor Galić : >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> I'm looking for some inspiration on how to make good use of >>> mod_lua. Those familiar with its documentation, might find >>> it a little bit lack

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On 31 December 2010 07:37, Brian McCallister wrote: > 2010/12/28 Igor Galić : >> Hey folks, >> >> I'm looking for some inspiration on how to make good use of >> mod_lua. Those familiar with its documentation, might find >> it a little bit lacking in this regard. > > My original aim (and what I sti

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread Brian McCallister
2010/12/28 Igor Galić : > Hey folks, > > I'm looking for some inspiration on how to make good use of > mod_lua. Those familiar with its documentation, might find > it a little bit lacking in this regard. My original aim (and what I still use mod_wombat for) is various small modules I don't want to

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-30 Thread Igor Galić
- "Stefan Fritsch" wrote: > On Wednesday 29 December 2010, Andrew Farmer wrote: > > On 29 Dec 2010 at 01:25, Igor Galić wrote: > > > Please share your particularly ugly, involved, unaesthetic or > > > otherwise /wrong/ solutions done with mod_rewrite because it > > > was the only hammer avai

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-29 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Wednesday 29 December 2010, Andrew Farmer wrote: > On 29 Dec 2010 at 01:25, Igor Galić wrote: > > Please share your particularly ugly, involved, unaesthetic or > > otherwise /wrong/ solutions done with mod_rewrite because it > > was the only hammer available for the screws at that time ;) > > I

Re: Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-29 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 29 Dec 2010 at 01:25, Igor Galić wrote: > Please share your particularly ugly, involved, unaesthetic or > otherwise /wrong/ solutions done with mod_rewrite because it > was the only hammer available for the screws at that time ;) I came up with the following abomination a while back to disable

Inspiration for mod_lua

2010-12-28 Thread Igor Galić
Hey folks, I'm looking for some inspiration on how to make good use of mod_lua. Those familiar with its documentation, might find it a little bit lacking in this regard. I've got an elaborate project plotted out, which I'll implement real soon now, but what I'm chiefly looking for is what mod_lua