Re: HTTP app architecture (was Re: What would _you_ like in a Lua CMS?)

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

On Oct 1, 2009, at 1:11 AM, Jacques Chester wrote:

> > I do realize that this argument is going against nearly 15 years of  
> > Common Gateway Interface indoctrination :D
>
> I've argued similar things before in other forums (that
> apps in future might embed their own HTTP handling). But
> I didn't see it being a case of using a pure Lua, pure
> Ruby, pure Python etc solution.

HTTP handling is not very resource consuming. It's what you do with it  
which takes time. Irrespectively of implementation details.

> Rather I expected folk
> would settle on some fast, easily wrapped C library.
> One that looks nice is Libebb[1].

I would settle on a simple, battle proof library for MIME handling.  
Not very interested in a full stack network run loop though.

> But as I pointed out, (F|S)CGI isn't a performance tool.
> Its purpose is to abstract the web server away from the
> application. For a lot of people, that matters.

More power to them!

> I am happy in this case to agree to (partly) disagree.

Hmmm... right... ok :))