Re: Bad rap

Though, if you have no control over what apps you have to support and they
are wirtten in multiple architectures... I can totally see where you're
coming from.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:48 AM, James Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have multiple apps, and we just switch in and out our auth/page
> wrapper/logging/debugging code as we need to, if some one else comes up
> with an app we tell them what they do to get the information and "jobs a
> good-un", much simpler than having multiple embedded
> login/authentication/... methods... We know because other projects use the
> style frameworks you are talking about - and we go you just XYZ, and then
> realize that they are using some nginx/psgi/starman solution and have to go
> - aargh - no you can't just do that - you will have to re-engineer your app!
>
> James
> On 6/14/2016 3:40 PM, John Dunlap wrote:
>
> We don't use any of those hooks into Apache. mod_perl invokes our main
> handler and, from there, we do everything ourselves. We even built our own
> authentication and authorization mechanisms, directly into our application,
> instead of relying on Apache to provide them. We've contained all mod_perl
> specific code to 2-3 files so that we have more freedom to decide how and
> where our application will be deployed.
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:37 AM, James Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 6/14/2016 3:28 PM, John Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-vs-apache-our-view/
>>
>> Unfortunately for us we actually use some of those 500 things that apache
>> is good at, that nginx doesn't do:
>>
>>    - Making use of all the handler/filter hooks in apache;
>>    - Fronting a complex web-application, where requests by definition
>>    take a long time to return (the databases and related queries are complex)
>>
>>
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