Re: [Caml-list] jserv vs fastcgi

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

Am Son, 2003-04-20 um 14.32 schrieb Jeff Henrikson:
> I periodically hear commotion on this list about Jserv.  Ocamlnet has a 
> Jserv interface now I see.  Can somebody explain to me what the 
> advantages of Jserv are over FastCGI?  FastCGI I know is old ('96), but 
> it seems to serve my main goal, which is to keep my process alive so 
> that I can pool ODBC connections.  The specification is something that 
> I can sit down and read in 30 minutes and understand:
> 
> http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html#S1
> 
> I haven't seen a specification for just Jserv.  Apparently it's 
> superseded by the Java Servelet spec, which in version 2.4 is a 309 
> page PDF file, chock full of bells and whistles which I haven't taken 
> the time to taxonomize, specified in notation which I don't understand. 
>   It writes everything based on Java method calls, which doesn't give me 
> a sense of what the actual data being passed along the channel is at 
> all.
> 
> I guess I also don't have a good sense of why FastCGI has been 
> neglected enough to, for example, not be updated for HTTP 1.1 keepalive 
> and etc.  Though it sounds like there have been hacks to do this from 
> time to time.  The fastcgi mailing list seems to be fairly active.
> 
> Would anybody with an understanding of this be so kind as to explain 
> the big picture in a couple of paragraphs, if that's at all a 
> reasonable request?  My inclination right now is to sit down and write 
> a fastcgi interface and configure Apache with mod_fastcgi, but I don't 
> want to do that and find out I'm using a senselessly obsolete interface.

Well, when I selected the JServ protocol (=AJP), the main reason was its
simplicity. You don't need 309 pages to describe it, the network
protocol is much simpler (it's basically CGI over a socket).
Furthermore, many people used it, and it is included in every Linux
distro.

I never compared AJP with fastcgi, I just picked something that worked.

The disadvantage of AJP is that there have been numerous and frequent
updates of the protocol since AJP-1.2 (what I implemented for O'Caml).
Up to now, even the newest JK connector supports the old version 1.2,
but this will likely change some day, and we need an implementation for
a newer version.

Gerd
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