From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 17 14:31:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hpdi.ath.cx (pc1-nthf5-0-cust132.not.cable.ntl.com [80.4.34.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184A137B405 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:31:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hitenp@localhost) by hpdi.ath.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1HMSWK00312; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:28:32 GMT (envelope-from hitenp) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:28:32 +0000 From: Hiten Pandya To: John Polstra Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020217222832.A258@hpdi.ath.cx> Reply-To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org References: <200202171905.g1HJ54Z29813@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200202171905.g1HJ54Z29813@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:05:04AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD hpdi.ath.cx 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-PGP-Key: http://www.pittgoth.com/~hiten/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:05:04AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > Yes, I wrote one. Yes, it's proprietary. >=20 > One obvious example is as part of a testbed for performance=20 > testing various kinds of network appliances. hmm, Well, so, forgive my bluntness, in a nutshell, there is no in-kernel (un-proprietory) HTTP Server. Also, as John said, it is very useful in some situations. As you visit the kHTTPD website at: http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/ You will see how much performance it offers, compared to=20 userland web servers. I don't mean polluting the kernel with this kind of stuff, but I wouldn't mind having an in-kernel HTTP Accelerator (for static pages). Nothing so fancy, but, just to do its job, which it is good at: "Providing static pages". Anyway, I don't mean that people have to make it. I know I talk to too much, and do less, :), but I will start a project at SourceForge, unless somebody has better options. ;) In a nutshell, it is better to have an in-kernel web server, as some people might like using it, even though it doesn't matter what we say, hehe :) Thanks, Regards, -- Hiten Pandya -- The JFS4BSD Project -- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8cC6Phh1dveTjA8MRAkU8AJ4klBV9jSCaB+1uw7qDGtdsMv48xwCgpFv+ EUuApkPGq4Fudl5Jo5F6Hnc= =HVJS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message