Re: [Webware-devel] Tux adaptor

2001-09-02 Thread Ian Bicking
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Orr) wrote: > And I'm confused by what you mean. I'm talking about having the > webserver broker all requests, and then through mod_rewrite, AddHandler > for *.py, or somehow, having it invoke Webware only for dynamic files. > This is what Tux is designed to do, although

Re: [Webware-devel] Tux adaptor

2001-09-02 Thread Mike Orr
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 01:04:24PM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Orr) wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:49:42AM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > > > I think this can be better than simply telling the web server to serve > > > certain kinds of files, because it allows you to do

Re: [Webware-devel] Tux adaptor

2001-09-02 Thread Ian Bicking
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Orr) wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:49:42AM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > > I think this can be better than simply telling the web server to serve > > certain kinds of files, because it allows you to do complicated > > URL->filename mappings, and to implement your own se

Re: [Webware-devel] Tux adaptor

2001-09-02 Thread Mike Orr
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:49:42AM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > I think this can be better than simply telling the web server to serve > certain kinds of files, because it allows you to do complicated > URL->filename mappings, and to implement your own security for file > access. These situations

RE: [Webware-devel] Tux adaptor

2001-09-02 Thread Ian Bicking
Tavis Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serving static files > = > On high load sites it makes no sense to serve static files > from the AppServer. I feel we need to make it easier to > serve only dynamic pages from the AppServer and leave > static files from the webserver (Apache,

Re: [Webware-devel] Tux adaptor

2001-09-02 Thread Ian Bicking
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Orr) wrote: > I don't think he meant the speed of the adapter per se, but rather the > overall impact of using Tux instead of Apache. Tux is supposed to be > faster and resource-lighter for static files, which could make a > difference on high-traffic sites. Sorry, I didn

RE: [Webware-devel] Tux adaptor

2001-09-02 Thread Tavis Rudd
Hi, I agree with Ian's comments. In all the playing I've done with optimizing the core socket dispatching the performance gains are almost always neglible once you get into most real-world scenarios. As Chuck has pointed out to me several times, Webware is already fast enough for its intend