[Zope] zope without apache.

[Toby Dickenson]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:31:54 +0100, "Phil Harris"
<phil.harris@zope.co.uk> wrote:

>> the reason i'm trying to skip the apache is,
>> zope is slower with apache (proxypass/rewrite)  - or am i missing
>something?

Yes, apache isnt the fastest proxy. Squid has a much lower overhead.

Plus with a minimal effort on setting up caching headers (possibly for
free, depending on your site) the fact that your proxy can handle some
requests without involving Zope can lead to an overall performance
gain.

>Maybe right, but the advantages outway any performance issues.

Indeed. Particularly because ZServer's http implementation looks like
it may have some denial-of-service vulnerabilities at the http layer.
That problem simply goes away, because squid or apache can sanitize
the http conversation before it gets to Zope.

Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com