Aymerick:

I am wondering why you want to support UDP in apache... I see you
mention discussions in Aug/Sept.. that i missed.. I will hvae
to go dig in the archive..

My take on UDP is it is very very dangerous to enable http over
UDP.. if UDP were every had a wide scale deployment the internet
itself could easily get to a state of congestion collapse. Especially
considering that most traffic IS http (around 70% last I heard).

Is there some special purpose for this that you want to use it?

Thanks

R

Aymerick J�hanne wrote:
I want to add UDP Support to Apache, and i can see that I'm not the only one
(there were already discussions about it in August and September on this
list).

Ok, but before starting to code, I want be sure to understand the "Protocol
Modules" logic.

For example, if I want HTTP, Echo and POP3, here is an example of
httpd.conf:

Listen 7
Listen 80
Listen 110

<VirtualHost *:110>
POP3protocol on
...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:7>
ProtocolEcho on
...
</VirtualHost>

But now, if I want to serve HTTP, HTTPU, Echo, UDP Echo, and POP3,
I need something like that (with a new directive ListenUDP to setup UDP
Listening Sockets) :

Listen 7
ListenUDP 7
Listen 80
ListenUDP 80
Listen 110

<VirtualHost *:110>
POP3protocol on
...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:7>
ProtocolEcho on
...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:7(UDP ???)>
ProtocolEcho on
...
</VirtualHost>

Ok, now i need your opinion: "Is this logic ok ?".
And if so, we will need to improve <VirtualHost> syntax to specify the port
type.

If you are ok with this, I'll start coding this stuff...

Aymerick JEHANNE
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