[Zope] - Servlet PCGI client?

[Amos Latteier]

At 02:12 PM 1/21/99 +0000, you wrote:
>
>A recent question on servlets made me wonder how hard it would
>be to implement a servlet that forwarded requests via PCGI?  That is, a 
>servlet that packaged up request input, made a PCGI request to a long-running
>app, and sent the response back to the browser.  This would provide an 
>alternative to the PCGI wrapper, perhaps providing better performance and
>avoiding stuffing authentication info in a Unix environment.
>Do servlets have access to the HTTP Authorization header?
>
>Does anyone on this list have experience writing servlets and
>feel inclined to try wrining this thing?  I think it could be
>pretty useful, since I think that a number of web servers
>support servlets.

A *long* time ago I tried my hand at writing a bobo servlet. I got it
mostly working, but as I recall, I couldn't figure out how to get enough of
the headers from the request, and/or stuff enough of the headers back into
the response. 

Since that time the Servlet API has changed a couple times, I think. Maybe
it's easier now.

If anyone wants to make a go of it, I'll try and dig up my old code to get
you started.

-Amos