[Seaside] About Seaside 3.0

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Sun Jul 13 06:59:56 UTC 2008


You will have Apache as a frontend anyway because:
- there is to my knowledge no way to run Squeak on a privileged port
without giving it root rights
- there is to my knowledge no way to generate Apache style access logs
with Kom. The ones that can be read by a whole lot of tools like
AWStats.
- Apache will still be running when your image is long gone and can
serve a nice 503 page
- less bitching with your admin and security people

Second, HTTPS/SSL really eats CPU cycles. Thats why a lot of sites
like GMail use it only for login and then switch back to HTTP.

Once you have accepted that there will always be an Apache frontend
implementing a web server in Smalltalk doesn't make a whole lot of
sense anymore. Something like an AJP connector will do fine.

Cheers
Philippe

2008/7/13 Bill Schwab <BSchwab at anest.ufl.edu>:
> Philippe,
>
> Why?  That then forces users to set up Apache, and then configure it
> correctly.  Squeak/Pharo should be able to do SSL on its own, and can
> thanks to the cryptography group's efforts.  With some extra effort, it
> could serve secure pages on its own.  Just about any otherwise
> non-Seaside service could benefit from such a simple to manage secure
> web server.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
> Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
> =================================
>
> SSL belongs into Apache not Comanche.
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
>
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> University of Florida
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