[Zope-dev] The Zope CGI executable, rewriting URLs on IIS

[Alexander Staubo]

Local named pipes are much faster than TCP sockets on NT because
connections are not routed through the networking layer, but are
directly by the kernel. On NT LANs, named pipes is the most efficient
IPC mechanism; if you go over a slow link (eg., WAN) you're right -- TCP
definitely rules.

As for your #2, give me a clue as to why you'd want to run Zope on a
Win9x box. When did Win9x become a server OS? Never mind the fact that
the wrapper service that comes with Zope will not run on Win9x, and the
executable CGI wrapper won't work without it.

I'm almost done with the ISAPI port now. It is based on Brian Lloyd's
code, which uses named pipes.

--
Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
"It has taken the planet Earth 4.5 billion years to discover it is
4.5 billion years old." --George Wald

>-----Original Message-----
>From: zope-dev-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-dev-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
>Of Brad Clements
>Sent: 28. mai 1999 22:50
>To: zope-dev@zope.org
>Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] The Zope CGI executable, rewriting URLs on IIS
>
>
>On 27 May 99, at 9:30, Jeff Bauer wrote:
>
>> A caveat:  PCGI on win32 is experimental and uses TCP/IP
>> sockets (Unix version uses AF_UNIX IPC).  A further refinement
>> to the win32 version would probably use named pipes and
>> require Mark Hammond's win32 extensions.
>>
>
>In my opinion, moving to named pipes from TCP will be a step
>backwards.
>
>1. Named pipes are slower than TCP connections
>2. Named pipes (server side) are only available on NT, so
>you'll rule out
>use on Win9X.
>
>
>TCP/IP is the better way to go...
>
>
>
>Brad Clements,                bkc@murkworks.com   (315)268-1000
>http://www.murkworks.com                          (315)268-9812 Fax
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