This have a clearly different aim. Despite starting this server is as simple as a call -[CGIServer start] but it is intended to be used as independent server.
发自我的 iPad 在 2013-5-17，13:52，Richard Frith-Macdonald <richardfrithmacdon...@gmail.com> 写道： > > On 16 May 2013, at 20:50, Maxthon Chan <xcvi...@me.com> wrote: > >> Well it turned out that my darned project is forced into using >> CoreFoundation (I need CFRunLoop to manage some BSD sockets' lifetime, as it >> is a portable HTTP server written in Objective-C.) >> >> If I recalled right, the first HTTP stack is written in Objective-C, on a >> NeXT box. >> >> I have some web development experienced with ASP.net (as my current website >> homepage is written in C# hosted on a Linux server using Mono) while the web >> development suite for Objective-C, an equally powerful language as C#, is >> pretty much dead. >> >> I analysed and discovered that in order to get the most out of ASP.net, >> Microsoft written their IIS in .net (version 7 up, I have a copy of Windows >> Server 2012 as a secondary OS on my MacBook Pro and the IIS 8 shipped with >> it is pretty much all .net). >> >> This lead me to think: can I write an equally powerful HTTP server in an >> equally powerful language, Objective-C, given its significance in the >> history of World Wide Web. >> >> And since the Objective-C language have improved vastly over decades, can I >> implement something similar to ASP.net, hosted on this server which is >> itself written in Objective-C? >> >> I have some previous experience writing a HTTP server in both Objective-C >> and Visual Basic .net (sibling of C#, essentially the same language >> expressed in another flavor), but either (for Objective-C) a library I used >> or (for Visual Basic .net) a lack of progress in Mono's vbmc compiler >> prevented them from being ported. >> >> Now I am starting over, implementing this server again, following more >> tightly as how Microsoft did to their IIS, but using direct access to >> Berkeley sockets and native features of either Apple's Foundation or >> GNUstep. And this server is designed to serve WebUIKit, my ASP.net clone in >> Objective-C best, just like what IIS did. (If you have ever ported an >> ASP.net from IIS to Apache/Mono stack you know the pains.) >> >> What's more, the nature of Objective-C even allows me to wrap modules from >> other UNIX-based HTTP servers (like Apache's) into my design, without losing >> any compatibility. That is a bonus comparing to IIS (which did it over >> P/Invoke, which is in no way portable), seamless compatibility. (We all know >> how bundles work, and NDISWrapper is a good example in wrapping programs >> from one platform to another.) >> >> However, this project is too big for my to finish myself. I hope any of you >> can come and help. This project license is yet to be decided (temporarily >> licensed under 2-clause BSD, subject to later change) >> >> If you are interested, send me an issue on GitHub, >> https://github.com/xcvista/ohttpd2 or reply to this email, please. If you >> teams want it, I can sign the related documents. > > You might be interested in WebServer ... written in Objective-C entirely > using gnustep-base (you can find it in the developer libraries in gnustep > svn). > This is what I use, but it's aim is somewhat different ... it's supposed to > be a web server embedded into applications, primarily so that those > applications can handle incoming web service requests. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
