On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:02:19 +0300 "Harold J. Ship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi > > This is my first post to this list. I have a project coming up for a > customer who wants to get their IIS extension working as an Apache > module on Linux. An apache module is normally cross-platform. > Some of the challenges are: > > 1) They maintain their own thread pool and scheduler. Those threads > process requests and send responses back to the user agent. This frees > up IIS threads. Is this possible to do in Apache? By the way, they use > Extension Control Blocks to do that. Yes, if you're happy to limit it to threaded implementations. But it may not make sense. See apr_thread_proc (and related APR modules) for API. > 2) Some requests have "sub-requests" that are sent back through IIS. > The main request maintains some globally accessible data that the > sub-requests write to. When the sub-requests are completed, the main > request can use that data. Is this kind of thing possible in an Apache > module? Yep, no problem. Most likely you'll want to let the subrequest access its parent. -- Nick Kew Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book http://www.apachetutor.org/
