On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > Just wondering if anyone has found an elegant way to run a "fastcgi" type > > of filter with xmail under Windows where the executable that is spawned is > > a very fast binary that then communicates with a persistent perl > > interpreter or script, for instance. > > > > There is some data about doing this on webservers at www.fastcgi.com but > > it seems like a rather extensive job to create something like this from > > scratch -- ie, the binary itself, the persistent interpreter that would > > have to basically run as a service on some tcp/ip port, etc. > > > > It seems like this would be the preferable way to run filters as even > > under heavy load the impact on the server would be minimal. > > > > Any ideas would be of interest. > > Yes, i know fastcgi and i used it with apache. The idea is good because > you can easily have a _very_light_ C program that communicate with the > real filter program ( typically heavy ) and avoid to respawn it at every > run. > > > > > - Davide > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks very much Davide, and yes, I agree but when I looked into it I didn't find a simple way to implement this for xmail. Seemed like I would have to write the binary which would then need to talk to a service that was running via sockets, etc. Would you have any tips on doing this or know where I can find some existing info or standard on how this should be implemented otherwise it seems like reinventing the wheel... Thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
