[Zope] - Servlet PCGI client?

[Michel Pelletier]

Jim Fulton 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.
>
> Jim
>

Jim,

    Do you mean specificly Java Servlets or any kind of server extension like a
mod_pcgi (like we were discussing yesterday)?

Michel


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