Hi Alan, I've seen this kind of behavior myself.
It's like if you shutdown the IIS Service on a Witango machine - all you're doing is cutting off communication "from" the outside world, but Witango is still humming along in the background (as a separate Service). So if there's an internal crontab task to perform, I think it still does it. Cheers.... 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 1:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: crontab file > > We just recently got a second server and we have it watching > the first server to see if it's crashed or not > > How we do that is the first server calls a taf on the second > server every minute and that taf inserts a timestamp in a table. > > IIS crashed on the first server so that it wasnt serving > pages but witango was still operating so the second server > was receiving the taf calls every minute so everything still > looked ok even though it wasnt which confused me a little. > > I was just kind of confused as to what was going on but have > it cleared up now hehe. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Cadillac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:48 AM > 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
