Re: kHTTPd: Good or Bad
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:35:00 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Zach Brown wrote:
> the benefit from kHTTPd will be boiled down to an interface for caching
> files and sending them out a socket, I'll wager. I'm all for that! What
> I don't like is the connection management and protocol parsing in the
> kernel; phhttpd (currently) and the apache 2.0 rewrite will do that for us
> in userspace.
Not everyone can just switch to apache at the drop of a hat, as nice as
it might be. In this case khttpd becomes very useful as a generic 100%
transparent httpd accelerator for *any* webserver -- think about
commercial closed-source ones too.
-Dan
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