On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 07:20, Bill Eldridge wrote: > > Some of the issues mentioned in this list about > getting various info from Apache into Webware > might be addressed in Apache 2.0, specifically: > > The second advantage over Apache 1.3 is filtered input/output (I/O), > which allows one module to modify the output of another module. An > often-requested feature of Apache 1.3 was for CGI scripts to output > SSI tags. This wasn't possible in version 1.3, however filtered I/O > allows this to work in Apache 2.0. > > It might be worthwhile thinking about aligning Webware > with Apache 2.0 rather than trying to get more out of 1.3.
Right now Webware isn't really aligned with Apache at all -- there's no critical features for Webware that are provided by Apache. The one that comes up a lot -- mod_rewrite -- is more for dealing with problems due to the heterogeneous nature of the typical Apache server. So the Apache-specific function is really Apache-specific, and you don't need it for a standalone server. And someday IIS might work well -- it's close, it just needs someone to really need it to work and do that last bit of effort. > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2001/04/26/apache_2.html > > You can also have one Apache module now call into another > one, so you don't necessarily have to replicate features: > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2001/09/27/apache_2.html I'm not sold on many of the features of the modules... it's so much easier and more powerful to use Python, and you can be so much more expressive in Python code than you can in the conf file. Simple features, like mod_gzip, could be done in Webware just fine if we just did it. Complicated features, like DAV, couldn't be sufficiently controlled from the Python side if they are implemented in an Apache module. Ian _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
