On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:17:05PM -0800, Matt Massie wrote: > i think brooks comment on the compressed XML is right on target. it > doesn't make sense to make put zlib compression on a separate port. it > make more sense to have a web server port (and the old style simple tcp > socket as well). the web port will process requests and return data > encoded as the client requests. > > the source for the embedded web server in the ./libhttpd. it is based > on the libhttpd but in honesty.. i don't think the author of libhttpd > would hardly recognize the code much at all. this web server can do > authentication, handle POST/GET variables, can be configured with > complex ACLs, memory management, etc... and it's still very > light-weight, fast and multi-threaded.
This sounds like a nice approach. > brooks... when you have time can you check it on FreeBSD? any HPUX, > Tru64, etc gurus should check their systems as well and let me know. > > i tried to compile 2.6.0 on the freebsd box here. it compiled great but > then segfaulted on a call to getaddrinfo. i googled it and found that > it's known bug on 4.7 (actually it's a security issue). I'll try it here as soon as it will compile for me. It looks like configure.in wants a tests directory that doesn't exist. Any idea what's up? What's your feeling about the path changes I suggested earlier? A bump in minor is probalby as good as time as we're going to get soon to change the defaults and it would be really helpful if I didn't have to apply patches and run sed to make ganglia install in FreeBSD approved places. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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