Good question Alan, I doubt the webserver is involved. The Webserver part of Witango is just for handling incoming requests from external locations (and just passes the request info to the Witango engine), and subsequently handles passing the response output back to whoever made the request. A Webserver is just for talking to the outside world.
A Cron process is internal, because Witango is just "fetching" the crontab file instructions (based on a timer) so there is no "input". And because there is no "output" from a Cron process, I don't think the webserver knows anything about it. Things like the TAF file address in a crontab file and <@URL> are again just "fetch" operations - there are lots of tools for doing this sort of thing (cURL, XMLHTTP, etc...) and they don't require a Webserver. A TAF file address in a crontab (or <@URL>) for a location other than http://127.0.0.1 involves fetching to an external address - so the server at the external address will involve a webserver. Just guessing of course. I'm curious, why do you ask? Scott Cadillac, XML-Extranet ~ 403-254-5002 ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------ Well-formed Programming in C# .NET, Witango, MSIE and XML ------------ Weblog ~ http://xmlx.ca Forums ~ http://forums.xmlx.ca Knowledge Base ~ http://kb.xmlx.ca ------------ IExtranet ~ http://iextranet.ca Witango ~ http://witango.org EasyXSLT ~ http://easyxslt.ca IIS Watcher ~ http://iiswatcher.ca ------------ P.O. Box 69006 RPO Bridlewood SW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2Y 4T9 ________________________________ From: Alan Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Witango-Talk: crontab file hello! i was wondering, when an event from the crontab file is executed (lets say blah.taf), does it send the request through the web server or does witango just process it internaly without getting the web server involved? ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
