From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Jake Donham <jake@donham.org>
Cc: ben kuin <benkuin@gmail.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] web server interface for Ocaml ( like rack, wsgi, ...)?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:32:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100919103258.GA14826@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim9QCb=hwyhw7pPnwDxe5HJ9+0DSk1rDs8Kw5aK@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:29:23AM -0700, Jake Donham wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:05 AM, ben kuin <benkuin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there a web server interface / adapter for ocaml that abstracts
> > your application from the various web server implementations?
>
> There is no OCaml equivalent to rack / wsgi. It would be nice to have
> something like this; the existing web frameworks (e.g. Ocamlnet and
> Ocsigen as another poster mentioned) implement the whole stack, but it
> would be nice to be able to mix and match (e.g. run Ocsigen's Eliom
> applications in Ocamlnet's Netplex server). Part of the difficulty is
> that there are different approaches to concurrency/asynchrony (Lwt for
> Ocsigen, Equeue for netplex). My impression is that rack / wsgi punt
> on this issue, and assume threading. But an OCaml equivalent could
> possibly offer both a concurrent/asynchronous and a direct-style
> interface.
Maybe I'm missing the point, but what's wrong with simply proxying the
HTTP connections through your favorite webserver to the backend
ocsigen/ocamlnet server?
Rich.
--
Richard Jones
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-19 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-16 11:05 ben kuin
2010-09-16 16:04 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Ekstrand
2010-09-16 17:29 ` Jake Donham
2010-09-16 19:00 ` Paolo Donadeo
2010-09-16 22:04 ` Dario Teixeira
2010-09-16 22:27 ` Michael Ekstrand
2010-09-16 23:55 ` Vincent Balat
2010-09-17 8:08 ` Paolo Donadeo
2010-09-17 8:03 ` Paolo Donadeo
2010-09-17 7:59 ` Paolo Donadeo
2010-09-17 8:57 ` Stéphane Glondu
2010-09-19 10:32 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2010-09-21 7:50 ` ben kuin
2010-09-21 19:20 ` Richard Jones
2010-09-21 19:46 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2010-09-21 19:58 ` Martin Jambon
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