At 10:05 PM 26/09/2001 -0700, Shamim Mohamed wrote:

>  >> Something to think about: the various phases of serving an HTTP
>  >> request.
>
>  > 1. server initialization.
>  > 2. connection received.  3. HTTP command received.
>  > 4. Headers returned.
>  > 5. Content returned.
>  > 6. Connection closed.
>  > 7. Post-connection processing.
>
>Seems to me that returning headers and content is effectively the
>return value from the handler in phase 2/3, eh?

That would be one way of looking at it, yes.


>The other APIs (Apache and NS) define phases to do stuff like
>authentication etc. Do we want support for that?

Hmm. Might be worth considering.

It also occurred to me that there are some sub-phases between 3 and 4, to 
do with converting a URL to a filename. I know from the mod_rewrite docs 
that Apache has some hooks at that point.


>Do we want to tie it to Apache (in which case we can talk about things
>like htaccess, logging, integrating with httpd.conf etc.) or make it
>general?

I think some of those could probably be suitably abstracted anyway, but not 
having used any other web server than Apache (IIS doesn't count), I don't 
know.

Wade.



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