Re: Generic Server

1999-11-01 Thread Dave DeMaagd
Siracusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.slashdot.org/code.shtml It's a horror show, truly. Return values go unchecked, quoting operators are ignored, subroutine naming conventions are nonexistent, "use" statements are buried in subroutines as if they were runtime directives, etc.

Re: Generic Server

1999-11-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Siracusa wrote: On 10/31/99 4:23 AM, Matt Sergeant wrote: Well I'll show by example. Take slash (the perl scripts for slashdot.org) I'm assuming you wanted this read like the classic: "Take my wife...please!" I mean, have you actually looked at the code here?

Re: Generic Server

1999-10-31 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Leslie Mikesell wrote: According to Matt Sergeant: Would it be possible to have a generic server, like Apache, but not just for HTTP - something that could also serve up NNTP connections, FTP connections, etc. It seems to me at first look this should be possible.

Re: Generic Server

1999-10-31 Thread Siracusa
On 10/31/99 4:23 AM, Matt Sergeant wrote: Well I'll show by example. Take slash (the perl scripts for slashdot.org) I'm assuming you wanted this read like the classic: "Take my wife...please!" I mean, have you actually looked at the code here? http://www.slashdot.org/code.shtml It's

Re: Generic Server

1999-10-29 Thread Rudy
I'll use POP3 as my example, although any other service (eg telnet, ssh, FTP, SMTP) are equally valid. Having apache run on a non-http port, say port 110 (POP3), could be handy. You could even have POP3 running elsewhere and use the POP3 module: o to proxy POP3 requests inside a firewall,

Re: Generic Server

1999-10-29 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, James G Smith wrote: Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think this is currently possible with the current Apache, but hear me out. Would it be possible to have a generic server, like Apache, but not just for HTTP - something that could also serve up NNTP

RE: Generic Server

1999-10-29 Thread Eric Cholet
I'll use POP3 as my example, although any other service (eg telnet, ssh, FTP, SMTP) are equally valid. Having apache run on a non-http port, say port 110 (POP3), could be handy. You could even have POP3 running elsewhere and use the POP3 module: o to proxy POP3 requests inside a

Re: Generic Server

1999-10-29 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
I don't think this is currently possible with the current Apache, but hear me out. Would it be possible to have a generic server, like Apache, but not just for HTTP - something that could also serve up NNTP connections, FTP connections, etc. It seems to me at first look this should be