I did try thttpd.
As I understood it, and I did send an email to acmesoftware to ask
but got no reply, thttpd does not handle keep-alive, and indeed
users complained that images "came in slowly". I also observed this.
I'm happy to be corrected, maybe I picked up the wrong version or
did not study
I'll second Perrin's remarks on using apache for this -- we run a stripped
down apache to serve image files, and have been extremely happy with the
performance. I've casually investigated thttpd and a couple of others,
but ended up sticking with Apache mainly because it's well documented and
we
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, siberian wrote:
> Is there some sort of ssl version to handle secure image requests so you
> dont get those nasty security flags?
stunnel could wrap the requests to a non-ssl backend, but that would most
likely be harder and cost more resources than just running a SSL-enabled
Is there some sort of ssl version to handle secure image requests so you
dont get those nasty security flags?
John-
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Buddy Lee Haystack wrote:
> Tell me more...
>
> How about memory leaks & mod_perl issues?
>
>
>
> Justin wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've been catching up on
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Justin wrote:
> I've been catching up on the modperl list archives, and would
> just like to recommend "mathopd" as an image web server.
I think you'll find thttpd (http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/) faster
and somewhat better documented. However, I'd like to point out t
Tell me more...
How about memory leaks & mod_perl issues?
Justin wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've been catching up on the modperl list archives, and would
> just like to recommend "mathopd" as an image web server.
>
> After having difficulties with the sheer number of front end
> apache processes neces
Hi,
I've been catching up on the modperl list archives, and would
just like to recommend "mathopd" as an image web server.
After having difficulties with the sheer number of front end
apache processes necessary to handle 10 backend modperls,
(difficulties: high load average and load spikes, ker
