RE: open persistent client connection from apache 2?

[MATHIHALLI,MADHUSUDAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1)]

Nope.. mod_ssl doesn't maintain such persistant connections - the
connections are alive only as long as that client connection is alive.

-Madhu 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Holsman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; zethix or something
Subject: Re: open persistent client connection from apache 2?


doesn't mod-pop3/mod_ssl do something similiar to this?

they listen on different ports and the standard '80'
you might be able to do something similiar to this.
but you need some method of not 'ending' the connection'

On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 07:05, Ryan Bloom wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2001 06:22 am, zethix or something wrote:
> 
> This is possible, but not easy.  You will need to write your own MPM,
> so that you can detect when there is data on that socket.  Of course,
> you could also just modify one of the existing MPMs, but this kind
> of logic is unlikely to ever get into the core.
> 
> Or, you could hack a module together to do this.  Two ways I can think
> of:
> 
> 1)  In the post_config phase, fork a process that will open a socket, and
> listen on it.
> 2)  In the post_config phase create a thread to open a socket and listen
> on it.  (Creating a thread in the parent process would be a bad thing IMO,
> so I like option 1 better).
> 
> That process/thread will listen on the socket, and when data come in,
> it will connect to the server, and make a request.  The data will go back
to
> your process, and you will forward it back out through that process.
> 
> Of course, this has scalability issues, because there is only one request
> at a time, but that can be gotten around by forking, the way mod_cgid
does,
> or by making that process multi-threaded.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm writing a module for apache 2. What I need is to create a socket
from
> > the server, then connect it to somewhere and keep the connection open
> > while the server is alive. Also, of course, I would like to be able to
> > receive data from the socket and then to trigger handling of a request
by
> > the rest of the server code. Is this possible?
> >
> > regards zethix
> 
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