Re: RPG as Web service

["Aaron Bartell" <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did I miss something?  What is wrong with Apache?  Remember that it is open
source and extensible so you can write your own "interceptors" if you want
(which I have had the "fun" pleasure of doing once :-)

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> > Hence, you need to have a web server to handle the communication,
> > and that is as far as I know not easy to do in RPG.
>
> I'm not sure I'd want to write a general purpose web server in RPG (I'm not
> sure I'd want to write one period) but if all you're doing is receiving web
> service requests and you can marry the "web server" to the back-end I would
> think this would be rather straight forward. Accept TCP connection, hand off
> to separate thread/job, process request, return result end thread/job.
>
> -Walden
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