Re: [boost] [RFC] Preferred API for a CGI library proposal
Jarrad Waterloo wrote:
Phil Endecott wrote:
I have also used the Apache module API, and have written standalone HTTP servers. How does one go about doing that?
Which - the Apache module or the standalone HTTP server? Apache has copious documentation, which is good because the API is very complex in a kind of "C++ written in C" sort of way. I did not enjoy using it, but it is stable and featurefull. The code for my standalone server, which is part of Anyterm (GPL licence), is online at http://svn.anyterm.org/anyterm/trunk/daemon/HttpDaemon.cc This makes use of a general-purpose thread-per-session TCP daemon class of mine, combined with an HTTP request parser written using Spirit. The rest of Anyterm is designed so that it will work as either an Apache module or with this standalone HTTP daemon. This makes it all much more complicated than it would otherwise need to be (for example I have to use shared memory in the Apache case; luckily the Boost shared memory library first appeared at exactly the right moment - thanks Ion!). So unless you really need something that will work in both contexts I don't recommend copying it. In fact, I think that I would recommend always using a standalone HTTP daemon, and using Apache's mod_proxy, or something similar from another web server, to communicate with it.
I have tried using POCO but it's a little buggy and I can't seem to get any support. So, if I could learn to do the same but using Apache, I would be ecstatic! Could you provide a tutorial/example on how this could be done?
Well my code is all online, and there is lots of Apache documentation. But what I have is far from a general-purpose C++ API for Apache, and the Apache API itself is not great for rapid application development. At one time there was a "mod_cplusplus" for Apache, but I don't think it is up to date. You might like to ask about this on the Apache lists. Please feel free to mail me privately if you have any non-Boost questions about any of my code. Regards, Phil.
Hi, mod_cplusplus is alive by the looks of it. Last release on Feb - 2007 https://sourceforge.net/projects/modcplusplus/ Thanks Shams -- "Phil Endecott" <spam_from_boost_dev@chezphil.org> wrote in message news:1175888661666@dmwebmail.belize.chezphil.org...
Jarrad Waterloo wrote:
Phil Endecott wrote:
I have also used the Apache module API, and have written standalone HTTP servers. How does one go about doing that?
Which - the Apache module or the standalone HTTP server?
Apache has copious documentation, which is good because the API is very complex in a kind of "C++ written in C" sort of way. I did not enjoy using it, but it is stable and featurefull.
The code for my standalone server, which is part of Anyterm (GPL licence), is online at
http://svn.anyterm.org/anyterm/trunk/daemon/HttpDaemon.cc
This makes use of a general-purpose thread-per-session TCP daemon class of mine, combined with an HTTP request parser written using Spirit.
The rest of Anyterm is designed so that it will work as either an Apache module or with this standalone HTTP daemon. This makes it all much more complicated than it would otherwise need to be (for example I have to use shared memory in the Apache case; luckily the Boost shared memory library first appeared at exactly the right moment - thanks Ion!). So unless you really need something that will work in both contexts I don't recommend copying it.
In fact, I think that I would recommend always using a standalone HTTP daemon, and using Apache's mod_proxy, or something similar from another web server, to communicate with it.
I have tried using POCO but it's a little buggy and I can't seem to get any support. So, if I could learn to do the same but using Apache, I would be ecstatic! Could you provide a tutorial/example on how this could be done?
Well my code is all online, and there is lots of Apache documentation. But what I have is far from a general-purpose C++ API for Apache, and the Apache API itself is not great for rapid application development.
At one time there was a "mod_cplusplus" for Apache, but I don't think it is up to date. You might like to ask about this on the Apache lists.
Please feel free to mail me privately if you have any non-Boost questions about any of my code.
Regards,
Phil.
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