> A Webserver is just for talking to the outside world. Sorry, I worded that wrong. Should be more like:
"A Webserver is for responding to communication from the outside world." Even in the case of Web Services, a Webserver can host a Service - but a Service request still originates from an "internal" process (regardless of how it's triggered) to "fetch" another Service response. Hope that makes sense. Cheers..... > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Cadillac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 12:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: crontab file > > 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 > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
