On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 05/11/2007, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is something like this possible with FPC? I guess the first question > > > is, do we have a webserver component for FPC? Secondly, does FPC > > > support SOAP? > > > > Yes on both accounts. > > Excellent, something new to experiment with. Where could I find that > webserver component? - Webserver component is in Indy or in LNet (maybe even synapse) - Soap server in WST, (pascal webservices toolkit) it's on Lazarus CCR. > ...and thanks for the info on midas! > You're welcome. > > I'm thinking of implementing some type of application server that sits > on the same server (or even elsewhere) as my CGI apps. Currently my > CGI apps have to grab the web variables, open a db connection, read > the data, process it into a HTML page and close the DB connection. > Opening and Closing DB connections tend to be slow, so if some > application server can keep the connection open and just return the > requested data to the CGI app, it should speed things up (I think). It should, yes. Better yet is to write an Apache module. A breeze with FPC these days... > PS: > I have no idea how you do performance/speed tests with CGI apps! > This idea is all in theory. ;-) Take a couple of PC's and fire wget a 1000 times on your CGI app. Better yet, use some of the FPC components (lnet, synapse) to do it in a tight loop. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel