On 21 February 2010 11:00, Mateusz Viste <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 20 February 2010 22:54 (CET), Dotan Cohen wrote: >> While I do agree with your point, I am wary of having a full http >> server running all the time. > > It depends of what you mean by "running all the time" :) > On my webiste, I advise to use the Grumy HTTP server for that. Grumpy is a > server I wrote few months ago, which is called by xinetd (or inetd). This > way, you don't have a http server "all the time", but only when there is a > http request to handle (xinetd listens on port 80, and start Grumpy when a > HTTP request comes, then the Grumpy server process it, and stops, until a new > request come to xinetd). >
I meant from a security point of view, not from a resources point of view. > Installing Grumpy is no problem on Linux: You need to copy one file to /sbin/ > (or /usr/sbin if you like), put grumpy.cfg in /etc/ and configure the > superserver (inetd or xinetd) to redirect TCP/80 connexions to Grumpy. That's > all! > Neat! How fast does that return the request? Subsequent requests? After how long without a request does the process self-terminate? > Anyway - if people keep saying to me that installing a http server sounds > like a hard thing to do, I might finally code a small http engine into > PaWebGui.... > I didn't say that, but it would be a good feature. >> Freebasic, really? I haven't looked at Basic since the Commodore 128! > > Ah :) > I started writing BASIC programs several years ago on an ATARI XL :) Then > switched to GW-BASIC on my first PC (80286), then came QBASIC, then > QuickBASIC and - finally - FreeBASIC. I do tried other languages, but the > BASIC syntax was so appealing to me, that I stayed with BASIC-like compilers. > FreeBASIC is a great modern programming language which allows to write > professional programs in a very efficient way. If you're curious, take a look > at http://www.freebasic.net/ ;-) > -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail. _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
