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[Jason Henry Parker]

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Martin Pool <martinp at mincom.com> writes:

> boa's very slick, but be aware that it doesn't quite implement the CGI
> interface[0] the same way Apache does, and so some scripts will break.  I
> forget the details, but some environment variables are not set --
> SCRIPT_NAME may be one.  It needs a little patch sometime.

Hrm.  $datapoint{boa}++;

I don't think anyone would really run boa as a web server for
something *important* (read: CGI and lots of connections).  But in
contextcontextcontext, I was only suggesting it for simple
file-sharing stuff.  When I'm on IRC[1], it's more convenient to point
someone at http://freezer/~henry/angelbrian.jpg than it is to, say,
start a DCC chat.

And so we've come around to crack attempts again.  :)

> Non-forking servers are a really interesting idea, and there's a lot of
> research on how to make them perform really well.  Consider for example
> that poll and select scan linear arrays of file descriptors, and so are not
> very scalable for large numbers of descriptors, so people are thinking
> about a new interface.

*blink*  It's hard to think of what else you can *do*.

jason

[1] : But I've quit IRC.  Well, if you believe the rumors.
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