yeah that makes sense, we have a port of wget to windows that does that kinda thing so i hear what your saying.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Cadillac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:57 AM Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: crontab file > > 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 ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
