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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:41:19 +0100
From: Andy Armstrong <andy@tagish.com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone know why the ISAPI redirector works how it does?
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Thanks Pete -- I'll watch for that. I've already had some experience of
this sort of thing. Not nice.

Peter.Horne@BTFinancialgroup.com wrote:
> 
> You're right - it can't for filters - hence why it defaults to "Low".
> 
> A word of advice, if you are doing this on Win2K you also get into some hairy security issues and what is happenning under IUSR, IWAM etc. accounts.  Keep it in mind if you start to see some strange behaviour in you tests.
> 
> Cheers...Pete
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Armstrong [mailto:andy@tagish.com]
> Sent: Monday,25 June 2001 8:04
> To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Anyone know why the ISAPI redirector works how it does?
> 
> Peter.Horne@BTFinancialgroup.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I'm a new, late starter on this thread...
> >
> > My understanding is that IIS runs about 15 threads and for filters it runs it on one of the threads, and for extension procs it uses the model defined in the application setup of the virtual directory (Low [iis thread], Medium [pool thread], High [isolated, app specific threads]).  From what I can see of the Tomcat code, because it has the Filter and Extension call backs in the same DLL it will always default to Low (ie. as a filter).
> >
> > My understanding is that the best way to do the IIS/Tomcat integration is tricky - but worth it.
> >
> > You would:
> >
> > o Have a separate filter to do the absolute minimum to check whether the URI is for a Servlet - this would run on the IIS thread and then direct it to the Exension Proc.
> > o Have a separate DLL implementing the extension proc and have it run in the High protection model.
> > o In the extension proc you would implement the asynch call back model where in simple terms IIS passes the call to the Tomcat DLL, the Tomcat DLL then has its own pool of threads to process the request by releasing the IIS thread and holding a ref to a callback sig function so that when Tomcat has finished it sigs back to IIS that it is complete and IIS then takes over again.  This is the way ASP works and makes sure you never get the dreaded "Server Busy" response back to the client because the scarce IIS threads are exhausted.
> >
> > Apart from that, I haven't thought about it ;-)
> 
> Not much ;-)
> 
> I'm surprised that it can choose which thread to use for filters -- is
> it not the case that filters are just called in the context of whichever
> thread is handling a particular request?
> 
> I seem to be committed now to finding out empirically what's going on
> inside IIS and which approach will yield the best performance, both for
> requests delegated to Tomcat and for everything else the server's doing.
> 
> I'll be sure to try the approach you suggest -- it certainly sounds
> reasonable.
> 
> --
> Andy Armstrong, Tagish
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