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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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	Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: In-Kernel HTTP Server (name preference)
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Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
>
> I can suggest using a netgraph module for the work as it can be connected
> to a netgraph ksocket node to receive the requests (jdp made all the
> changes needed to allow this to be done).

Another way would be to implement it as an accept filter which knows how
to handle simple requests but drops anything more complicated down to
a userland web server -- an unmodified Apache would be able to do the
latter, since it already supports accept filters. Some way of configuring
it is still needed, though...

Tony.

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