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- From: Tom Scola <Thomas.Scola@us.rbcds.com>
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 15:13:11 -0500
Tim Bray wrote:
> Furthermore, writing your application dispatch in the
> context of an existing web server is commonly regarded as substantially
> easier than setting up a connection management & dispatch facility
> yourself.
So a web server is nothing but a big, complicated version of the Unix
inetd program?
> Exchanging messages with a web server via HTTP is
> commonly regarded as substantially easier than dealing with low-level
> socket library.
Most programs that are dispatched by inetd use stdio for input and
output, and are no more complicated than writing to a disk file. And
then there's the dropped connection/timeout problem, which is
complicated to deal with no matter what the context is, and most APIs
tend to gloss over.
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