[REBOL] LRWP for Xitami Using REBOL
From: cybarite:sympatico:ca at: 18-Oct-2001 6:40
LRWP for Xitami Using REBOL
===Xitami Long Runnung Web Processes
---Xitami
I just started to use the Xitami Web
server to serve static pages
(very nice -- easy to setup)
and now want to do a bit more with it.
---Example Needed
Can anyone provide an example REBOL script
that is running as a Long Running Web Process?
---Rationale
The doc indicates that this will give
some performance improvements over the CGI approach.
---LRWP Process
I read the documentation.
I think it works as follows:
a. add the process name and url to the LRWP config section
b. start the script to listen on that port
c. the script provides a response is similar to cgi
A LRWP process listens on its port and provides
a response like webserver.r does.
The documentation reads like the Xitami server will
manage the scheduling of its LRWProcesses - queue the
requests until there is a free process, manage the timeout
when none become available.
---LRWP Location
I think the LRWP processes can be served from any place that
I wanted to put them - like on another server for that purpose.
---Performance Findings?
Are there any results of the performance of REBOL being
the LRWPs?
---Coming To Terms
I want to try this by putting a dictionary of terms in the LRWP
script and use REBOL's ability to access and format them for display.
Then hundreds of terms can be included and linked from a single
dictionary definition such as:
terms: [
LRWP [
title "Long Running Web Process"
definition {An Xitami approach similar to Fast CGI that allows}
usage {Not yet used in this environment.}
see-also ['cgi]
]
CGI [
title "Common Gateway Interface"
definition {}
usage {Suitable for }
see-also ['lrwp]
]
]
And emitting standardized format HTML after finding a term in that
dictionary is pretty easy to do.
---Experience
Anybody been there, done that, got the tee-shirt?