Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 13212 invoked by uid 6000); 30 Oct 1998 00:38:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 13203 invoked from network); 30 Oct 1998 00:38:55 -0000 Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (204.62.130.91) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 30 Oct 1998 00:38:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 10652 invoked by uid 500); 30 Oct 1998 00:38:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:38:50 -0800 (PST) From: Dean Gaudet To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: Core server caching In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Comment: Visit http://www.arctic.org/~dgaudet/legal for information regarding copyright and disclaimer. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Ed Korthof wrote: > How about gzip'ing content on the fly, or translating it to another > charset? Yeah these both came up during the hike. They're much better example applications in my opinion. > The ones which come to mind are HTTP-NG and other HTTP extensions -- it > would be easy to make Apache provide these services using layered I/O. > W/o layered I/O, it means more hacks in the core. Those are things I'd > love to see Apache support... You mean MUX? All we need for MUX is a single layer, the bottom layer read/write/accept. > OTOH, simply providing for that would require much less than some of the > proposals which we've discussed. Yeah :) Dean